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Concentrationary Imaginaries : Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture, Paperback / softback Book

Concentrationary Imaginaries : Tracing Totalitarian Violence in Popular Culture Paperback / softback

Edited by Griselda (University of Leeds, UK) Pollock, Max (University of Leeds, UK) Silverman

Part of the New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts series

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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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