Author

Publication

2015 - I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited

Language

English

Word Count

84,000 words, Guess

Page Count

336 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781784530457
  • ISBN-10178453045X
  • OCLC Control Number934037796
  • Better World Books9781784530457
  • Open LibraryOL28579636M

Classifications

  • LCCPN1993.5.U65
  • LCCPN1993.5.U65 K56 2016

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.

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  • Quality HollywoodI. B. Tauris & Company, Limited2015

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