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Author | : Cristina Vatulescu |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2010-10-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0804775729 |
The documents emerging from the secret police archives of the former Soviet bloc have caused scandal after scandal, compromising revered cultural figures and abruptly ending political careers. Police Aesthetics offers a revealing and responsible approach to such materials. Taking advantage of the partial opening of the secret police archives in Russia and Romania, Vatulescu focuses on their most infamous holdings—the personal files—as well as on movies the police sponsored, scripted, or authored. Through the archives, she gains new insights into the writing of literature and raises new questions about the ethics of reading. She shows how police files and films influenced literature and cinema, from autobiographies to novels, from high-culture classics to avant-garde experiments and popular blockbusters. In so doing, she opens a fresh chapter in the heated debate about the relationship between culture and politics in twentieth-century police states.
Author | : Cristina Laura Vatulescu |
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Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Police |
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Author | : Kamil Zeidler |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 430 |
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ISBN | : 303155521X |
Author | : Jacques Ranciere |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2006-06-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780826489548 |
Aiming to rethink the relation between art and politics, this title seeks to reclaim aesthetics from its contemporary narrow confines to reveal its significance for contemporary experience. It ranges across art and politics, the uses and abuses of modernity, the role of visual technologies, and the relationship between history and fiction.
Author | : Mustafa Dikec |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2015-06-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0748686010 |
Mustafa Dikec reveals the aesthetic premises that underlie Hannah Arendt, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Ranciere's political thinking, and demonstrates how their politics depend on the construction and apprehension of worlds through spatial forms and distrib
Author | : Jerrold Levinson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 2005-01-27 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780199279456 |
'The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics' has assembled 48 brand-new essays, making this a comprehensive guide available to the theory, application, history, and future of the field.
Author | : Phillip Brian Harper |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-12-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1479867985 |
An artistic discussion on the critical potential of African American expressive culture In a major reassessment of African American culture, Phillip Brian Harper intervenes in the ongoing debate about the “proper” depiction of black people. He advocates for African American aesthetic abstractionism—a representational mode whereby an artwork, rather than striving for realist verisimilitude, vigorously asserts its essentially artificial character. Maintaining that realist representation reaffirms the very social facts that it might have been understood to challenge, Harper contends that abstractionism shows up the actual constructedness of those facts, thereby subjecting them to critical scrutiny and making them amenable to transformation. Arguing against the need for “positive” representations, Abstractionist Aesthetics displaces realism as the primary mode of African American representational aesthetics, re-centers literature as a principal site of African American cultural politics, and elevates experimental prose within the domain of African American literature. Drawing on examples across a variety of artistic production, including the visual work of Fred Wilson and Kara Walker, the music of Billie Holiday and Cecil Taylor, and the prose and verse writings of Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, and John Keene, this book poses urgent questions about how racial blackness is made to assume certain social meanings. In the process, African American aesthetics are upended, rendering abstractionism as the most powerful modality for Black representation.
Author | : Peter J. Hutchings |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2014-06-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317797515 |
This book analyses the legal and aesthetic discourses that combine to shape the image of the criminal, and that image's contemporary endurance. The author traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetic concepts originating in the nineteenth century. Building on the ideas of Foucault and Walter Benjamin, Hutchings argues that the criminal, as constructed in places such as popular crime stories or the law of insanity, became an obsession which haunted nineteenth century thought.
Author | : Albert S. Bard |
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Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 1955* |
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Author | : John P. Crank |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2014-09-25 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1317521447 |
Police culture has been widely criticized as a source of resistance to change and reform, and is often misunderstood. This book seeks to capture the heart of police culture—including its tragedies and celebrations—and to understand its powerful themes of morality, solidarity, and common sense, by systematically integrating a broad literature on police culture into middle-range theory, and developing original perspectives about many aspects of police work.