Sensational Subjects

Author : John Jervis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472535642
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensational Subjects written by John Jervis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Henry Alford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays and Addresses Chiefly on Church Subjects written by Henry Alford and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amber Jamilla Musser
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479832499
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensational Flesh written by Amber Jamilla Musser and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-09-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Leonard Whibley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.P8/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Greek Studies written by Leonard Whibley and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1180 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fortnightly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1192 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fortnightly written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 880 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 880 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph B. Entin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469606615
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sensational Modernism written by Joseph B. Entin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, Sensational Modernism uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind and fiction by writers such as William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, Tillie Olsen, and Pietro di Donato, Joseph Entin argues that these artists drew attention to the country's most vulnerable residents by using what he calls an "aesthetic of astonishment," focused on startling, graphic images of pain, injury, and prejudice. Traditional portrayals of the poor depicted stoic, passive figures of sentimental suffering or degraded but potentially threatening figures in need of supervision. Sensational modernists sought to shock middle-class audiences into new ways of seeing the nation's impoverished and outcast populations. The striking images these artists created, often taking the form of contorted or disfigured bodies drawn from the realm of the tabloids, pulp magazines, and cinema, represented a bold, experimental form of social aesthetics. Entin argues that these artists created a willfully unorthodox brand of vernacular modernism in which formal avant-garde innovations were used to delineate the conditions, contradictions, and pressures of life on the nation's fringes.

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Total Pages : 552 pages
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Download or read book The Moving Picture World written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Massumi
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822383578
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parables for the Virtual written by Brian Massumi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-09 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typically applied neglect the most salient characteristics of embodied existence—movement, affect, and sensation—in favor of concepts derived from linguistic theory. In Parables for the Virtual Brian Massumi views the body and media such as television, film, and the Internet, as cultural formations that operate on multiple registers of sensation beyond the reach of the reading techniques founded on the standard rhetorical and semiotic models. Renewing and assessing William James's radical empiricism and Henri Bergson's philosophy of perception through the filter of the post-war French philosophy of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault, Massumi links a cultural logic of variation to questions of movement, affect, and sensation. If such concepts are as fundamental as signs and significations, he argues, then a new set of theoretical issues appear, and with them potential new paths for the wedding of scientific and cultural theory. Replacing the traditional opposition of literal and figural with new distinctions between stasis and motion and between actual and virtual, Parables for the Virtual tackles related theoretical issues by applying them to cultural mediums as diverse as architecture, body art, the digital art of Stelarc, and Ronald Reagan's acting career. The result is an intriguing combination of cultural theory, science, and philosophy that asserts itself in a crystalline and multi-faceted argument.