Handbook of Research on Aestheticization of Violence, Horror, and Power

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Individuals seek ways to repress the sense of violence within themselves and often resort to medial channels. The hunger of the individual for violence is a trigger for the generation of violent content by media, owners of political power, owners of religious power, etc. However, this content is produced considering the individuals sensitivities. Thus, violence is aestheticized. Aesthetics of violence appear in different fields and in different forms. In order to analyze it, an interdisciplinary perspective is required. The Handbook of Research on Aestheticization of Violence, Horror, and Power brings together two different concepts that seem incompatible—aesthetics and violence—and focuses on the basic motives of aestheticizing and presenting violence in different fields and genres, as well as the role of audience reception. Seeking to reveal this togetherness with different methods, research, analyses, and findings in different fields that include media, urban design, art, and mythology, the book covers the aestheticization of fear, power, and violence in such mediums as public relations, digital games, and performance art. This comprehensive reference is an ideal source for researchers, academicians, and students working in the fields of media, culture, art, politics, architecture, aesthetics, history, cultural anthropology, and more. Editorial Advisory Board List of Reviewers List of Contributors Table of Contents Preface Section 1: Aesthetics of Violence in Visual and Audial Arts/Culture 1 (A)Esthetics and Violence Psychology: “Individual and Object” • Ezgi Gül Ceyhan 2 Technical Structure of Fear in the Visual Narrative • Nursel Bolat 3 The Coexistence of Violence and Aesthetics in Performance Art: The Forms of Catharsis • İlknur Gümüş 4 Staging Theatrical Child-Centric Violence: Aesthetic Ownership in The Pillowman • Matthew Hodge 5 The Rise of Artistic Uncanny: Tattoos • Munevver Elif Gurses 6 Reflections of Violence in Music • Yakup Alper Varış 7 Illustration as a Visual Communication Culturel Product Aesthetic Line in Visual Representation • Tuğba Demir 8 Urbanization Violence to Nature: Reconciliation With Nature • Aslı Güneş Gölbey, Ayşenur Kaylı 9 Myths, Tales, and Symbols: Anatolian Legends and Cultural Memory in the Footsteps of the Past • Pelin Agocuk, Dilan Ciftci Section 2: Aesthetics of Violence and Horror in Mass Media 10Violence Aestheticized in Sports Publications and Broadcasts........................................................... 174Esennur Sirer 11Meaning of Space in Cinema: An Analysis on Dogtooth.................................................................... 192Eda Arısoy, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University, TurkeyEsma Gökmen 12 The Tale of Fabled Creatures: Penny Dreadful • M. Nur Erdem 13 Dystopic Pleasure: Aestheticization of Fear • Deniz Yaman 14 Tainted Away: Violence Over Nature in the Anime of Hayao Miyazaki • Merve Çay 15 The Unbearable Aesthetics of Violence That Comes From Another Dimension: Gotham City • Filiz Erdoğan Tuğran Section 3: Aesthetics of Power 16 Context and Space as the Tools to Legitimize and Produce Violence: Broadening Hassan’s Perspective on East-West Dichotomy • Ahmet Faruk Çeçen 17 The Aesthetics of Fear and Power in Soviet Posters • Ömer Çakın, Mehmet A. Günay 18 Aestheticization Through Representation of Power in Built Environment: Urban Public Spaces as Site of Display • Tugce Sanli 19 Aestheticization of Fear and Violence via Public Relations: A Study Case on 12th of September Military Coup in Turkey • H. Burcu Önder Memiş 20 State, Masculinity, and the Aestheticization of Violence: An Alternative Reading of Behzat Ç • Erol Subasi, Selda Tunc Subasi 21 Ottomentality as Technology of Self: How Do Mobile Games Aestheticize the Entrepreneurial Self? • Hasan Turgut, Neslihan Yayla Section 4: Aesthetics of Violence Beyond Power 22 Resisting With Art: The Surveillance Art Against Surveillance • Nihal Kocabay-Sener 23 Why Should We Still Be Hopeful? Aestheticization of Power and Resistance • Hasan Turgut 24 Aestheticizing Violence Within Transmedia Storytelling Context: V For Vendetta Case • Ferhat Zengin, Bahadır Kapır 25 The Aestheticization of Counterpower: The Iconography of New Social Movements in Network Society • Enes Abanoz 26 Transposition of the Public Events With Violent Visual: Case of PETA • Esra Çelebi 27 Aesthetics Perceptions of Social Media Generations • Aylin Tutgun Ünal 28 Homo Aestheticus’ Search for Violence: An Examination on the Aestheticization and Reception of Violence in Digital Games • Neslihan Yayla 29 Reality Augmented Nightmares or Experiences of Fear • Munevver Elif Gurses, Sena Sahin Compilation of References About the Contributors Index