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Sensational Subjects: The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World: The WISH List

Autor Dr John Jervis
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 ian 2015
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472535597
ISBN-10: 1472535596
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 5 halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria The WISH List

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Ties in with our 'Cultural Histories' series and our 'Philosophy, Aesthetics and Cultural Theory' series

Notă biografică

John Jervis is Research Fellow in Cultural Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. He is the author of Exploring the Modern: Patterns of Western Culture and Civilization (1998), Transgressing the Modern: Explorations in the Western Experience of Otherness (2000) and (as co-editor, with Jo Collins) Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties (2008).

Cuprins

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsGuest Preface1. Introduction 2. Sensation and Sensationalism3. Sensational Processes4. The Aesthetics of Sensation5. The Distraction of the Modern6. Cinematic Sensation: the Sublime and the Spectacle7. Sensational Affect8. The Melodrama of the ModernNotesIndex

Recenzii

By inviting us to think about modern experience as both sensation and sensational John Jervis has written a book of wide-ranging importance. Sensational Subjects is a scintillating read.
Sensational Subjects is a remarkable theoretical achievement for its analyses of the fertile interrelationships between aesthetics and a politics of modernity rich in latent possibilities and animated by our "senses" in every sense of this term.