Violence and the Limits of Representation

Author:   G. Matthews ,  S. Goodman
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2013
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9781349451913


Pages:   194
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
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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.

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Author:   G. Matthews ,  S. Goodman
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2013
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349451913


ISBN 10:   1349451916
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   01 January 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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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 Žižek 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 and Dolls ; Rosalind Haslett 6. Skeletons of Solid Objects: Imperial Violence in J.G. Farrell's Empire Trilogy ; Sam Goodman 7. Contingent Violence: Bergson and the Comedy of Horrors in Schindler's List ; John Mullarkey 8. Violence and Mediation: The Ethics of Spectatorship in the Twenty-First Century Horror Film; Xavier Aldana Reyes 9. Objects of Surprise: Violence, Security and Metaphysics; Robert Jackson Index

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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 i ek 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 the everyday presence of violence in institutions (the procedures, bureaucracy and terminology which perpetrate indifferent violence against people), our homes, ubiquitous new technologies, the built environment, security culture, and all pervasive global capital. The transdisciplinary influence of this text will be felt for years to come. David Martin-Jones, Professor of Film Studies, University of Glasgow, UK


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Sam Goodman, University of Exeter, UK Rosalind Haslett, Newcastle University, UK Robert Jackson, postgraduate researcher, artist and software developer, UK Graham Matthews, Newcastle University, UK Catriona McAra, University of Huddersfield, UK John Mullarkey, Kingston University, London, UK Benjamin Noys, University of Chichester, UK Xavier Aldana Reyes, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Scott Wilson, Kingston University, London, UK

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