Sensational Subjects
Title | Sensational Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | John Jervis |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 243 |
Release | 2015-01-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1472535642 |
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Under what conditions does 'sensation' become 'sensational'? In the early nineteenth century murder was a staple of the sensationalizing popular press and gruesome descriptions were deployed to make a direct impact on the sensations of the reader. By the end of the century, public concern with the thrills, spills, and shocks of modern life was increasingly articulated in the language of sensation. Media sensationalism contributed to this process and magnified its impact, just as sensation was, in turn, taken up by literature, art and film. In the contemporary world the dramatization of these experiences in an era of media panics over terrorism and paedophilia has taken an overtly melodramatic form, in which battles of good and evil play out across the landscapes of our lives. Sensational Subjects develops an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to exploring these themes, their impact and their implications for understanding the modern world. A companion volume, Sympathetic Sentiments: Affect, Emotion and Spectacle in the Modern World is published simultaneously by Bloomsbury.
Essays and Addresses Chiefly on Church Subjects
Title | Essays and Addresses Chiefly on Church Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Alford |
Publisher | |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 1869 |
Genre | Church |
ISBN |
A Companion to Greek Studies
Title | A Companion to Greek Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard Whibley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 720 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
The Fortnightly Review
Title | The Fortnightly Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1180 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | England |
ISBN |
The Fortnightly
Title | The Fortnightly PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1192 |
Release | 1910 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Sensational Movies
Title | Sensational Movies PDF eBook |
Author | Birgit Meyer |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2015-10-16 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520287673 |
Tracing the rise and development of the Ghanaian video film industry between 1985 and 2010, Sensational Movies examines video movies as seismographic devices recording a culture and society in turmoil. This book captures the dynamic process of popular filmmaking in Ghana as a new medium for the imagination and tracks the interlacing of the mediumÕs technological, economic, social, cultural, and religious aspects. Stepping into the void left by the defunct state film industry, video movies negotiate the imaginaries deployed by state cinema on the one hand and Christianity on the other. Birgit Meyer analyzes Ghanaian video as a powerful, sensational form. Colliding with the state film industryÕs representations of culture, these movies are indebted to religious notions of divination and revelation. Exploring the format of Òfilm as revelation,Ó Meyer unpacks the affinity between cinematic and popular Christian modes of looking and showcases the transgressive potential haunting figurations of the occult. In this brilliant study, Meyer offers a deep, conceptually innovative analysis of the role of visual culture within the politics and aesthetics of religious world making.
Sensational Flesh
Title | Sensational Flesh PDF eBook |
Author | Amber Jamilla Musser |
Publisher | NYU Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2014-09-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1479832499 |
The author uses masochism as a lens to examine how power structures race, gender, and embodiment in different contexts. Musser employs masochism as a tool for probing relationships between power and subjectivity. Engaging with a range of debates about lesbian S&M, racialization, femininity, and disability, as well as key texts such as Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs, Pauline Réage's The Story of O, and Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality, Musser renders legible the complex ways that masochism has been taken up by queer, feminist, and critical race theories. Furthering queer theory's investment in affect and materiality, she proposes "sensation" as an analytical tool for illustrating what it feels like to be embedded in structures of domination such as patriarchy, colonialism, and racism and what it means to embody femininity, blackness, and pain.