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Concentrationary Imaginaries
Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture
Concentrationary Imaginaries
Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture
Description
In 1945, French political prisoners returning from the concentration camps of Germany coined the phrase 'the concentrationary universe' to describe the camps as a terrible political experiment in the destruction of the human. This book shows how the unacknowledged legacy of a totalitarian mentality has seeped into the deepest recesses of everyday popular culture. It asks if the concentrationary now infests our cultural imaginary, normalizing what was once considered horrific and exceptional by transforming into entertainment violations of human life. Drawing on the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt and the analyses of violence by Agamben, Virilio, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy, it also offers close readings of films by Cavani and Haneke that identify and critically expose such an imaginary and, hence, contest its lingering force.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Series Preface: Concentrationary Memories: The Politics of Representation, Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman
Introduction
A Concentrationary Imaginary?, Griselda Pollock
Part I. Thinking
1. Framing Horror, Adriana Cavarero
2. Between Realism and Fiction: Arendt and Levi on Concentrationary Imaginaries, Olivia Guaraldo
3. Totality, Convergence, Synchronization, Ian James
Part II. Desire
4. Wrap me up in Sadist Knots: Representations of Sadism-From Naziploitation to Torture Porn, Aaron Kerner
5. Redemption or Transformation: Blasphemy and the Concentrationary Imaginary in Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974), Griselda Pollock
Part III. Camp
6. Seep and Creep: the Concentrationary Imaginary in Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island (2010), Benjamin Hannavy Cousen
7. Haneke and the Camps, Max Silverman
8. Spec(tac)ularizing 'Campness': Nikita and La Femme Nikita the Series, Brenda Hollweg
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Product details
| Published | 30 Nov 2015 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 320 |
| ISBN | 9780857725448 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 49 bw illus |
| Series | New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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