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Abjection Incorporated - Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,063
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Abjection Incorporated - Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence (Hardcover): Maggie Hennefeld, Nicholas Sammond

Abjection Incorporated - Mediating the Politics of Pleasure and Violence (Hardcover)

Maggie Hennefeld, Nicholas Sammond

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From the films of Larry Clark to the feminist comedy of Amy Schumer to the fall of Louis C. K., comedic, graphic, and violent moments of abjection have permeated twentieth- and twenty-first-century social and political discourse. The contributors to Abjection Incorporated move beyond simple critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death, illustrating how it has become a contested mode of political and cultural capital-empowering for some but oppressive for others. Escaping abjection's usual confines of psychoanalysis and aesthetic modernism, core to theories of abjection by thinkers such as Kristeva and Bataille, the contributors examine a range of media, including literature, photography, film, television, talking dolls, comics, and manga. Whether analyzing how comedic abjection can help mobilize feminist politics or how expressions of abjection inflect class, race, and gender hierarchies, the contributors demonstrate the importance of competing uses of abjection to contemporary society and politics. They emphasize abjection's role in circumscribing the boundaries of the human and how the threats abjection poses to the self and other, far from simply negative, open up possibilities for radically new politics. Contributors. Meredith Bak, Eugenie Brinkema, James Leo Cahill, Michelle Cho, Maggie Hennefeld, Rob King, Thomas Lamarre, Sylvere Lotringer, Rijuta Mehta, Mark Mulroney, Nicholas Sammond, Yiman Wang, Rebecca Wanzo

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Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2020
First published: 2020
Editors: Maggie Hennefeld • Nicholas Sammond
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 978-1-4780-0189-8
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > Film theory & criticism
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
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LSN: 1-4780-0189-5
Barcode: 9781478001898

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