Screen LibraryViolence and the limits of representation
Violence and the Limits of Representation explores the representation of violence in literature, film, drama, music and art in order to demonstrate the ways in which the work done by researchers in the Arts and Humanities can offer fresh perspectives on current social and political issues.
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Violence and the Limits of Representation explores the representation of violence in literature, film, drama, music and art in order to demonstrate the ways in which the work done by researchers in the Arts and Humanities can offer fresh perspectives on current social and political issues. "This stimulating collection provides a provocative and original exploration of representations of violence across cinema, popular music, the internet, literature, art and theatre. Through engagement with influential thinkers and artists - from Roland Barthes to Slavoj Zizek by way of the Marquis de Sade, Yoko Ono, Leonora Carrington and Steven Spielberg - this superb anthology greatly broadens our understanding of representation not only as the cause of violence, but also as determining of our responses to it. Violence and the Limits of Representation focuses our attention in particular on |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9781137296894. |
| Carrier Form: | 208 p. : 8 figures. |
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9781137296894 9781137296900 : 1137296909 : |
| CLC: | I561.074 |
| Contents: | Contents List of Figures Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Violence and the Limits of Representation-- Sam Goodman and Graham Matthews 1. The Violence of Representation and the Representation of Violence-- Benjamin Noys 2. Violence and Love (in which Yoko Ono encourages Slavoj Zizek to give peace a chance)-- Scott Wilson 3. (Im)material Violence: Discipline and the Gaze in James Kelman's How Late It Was, How Late-- Graham Matthews 4. Sadeian Women: Erotic Violence in the Surrealist Spectacle-- Catriona McAra 5. Demarcating Violence in the Dramaturgy of Lisa McGee's Girls a |