{"product_id":"concentrationary-imaginaries-9781350229556","title":"Concentrationary Imaginaries","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t Acknowledgements  Series Preface: Concentrationary Memories: The Politics of Representation, \u003ci\u003eGriselda Pollock and Max Silverman\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e A Concentrationary Imaginary?, \u003ci\u003eGriselda Pollock \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003e Part I. Thinking\u003c\/b\u003e 1. Framing Horror, \u003ci\u003eAdriana Cavarero \u003c\/i\u003e  2. Between Realism and Fiction: Arendt and Levi on Concentrationary Imaginaries, \u003ci\u003eOlivia Guaraldo \u003c\/i\u003e  3. Totality, Convergence, Synchronization, \u003ci\u003eIan James \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart II. Desire\u003c\/b\u003e 4. Wrap me up in Sadist Knots: Representations of Sadism—From Naziploitation to Torture Porn, \u003ci\u003eAaron Kerner \u003c\/i\u003e  5.  Redemption or Transformation: Blasphemy and the Concentrationary Imaginary in Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter (1974), \u003ci\u003eGriselda Pollock \u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart III. Camp\u003c\/b\u003e 6. Seep and Creep: the Concentrationary Imaginary in Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island (2010),\u003ci\u003e Benjamin Hannavy Cousen\u003c\/i\u003e  7. Haneke and the Camps, \u003ci\u003eMax Silverman  \u003c\/i\u003e  8. Spec(tac)ularizing ‘Campness’: Nikita and La Femme Nikita the Series,\u003ci\u003e Brenda Hollweg \u003c\/i\u003e  Notes Bibliography\t Notes on Contributors\t Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738607300951,"sku":"9781350229556","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350229556.jpg?v=1720049635","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/concentrationary-imaginaries-9781350229556","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}