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Violent Depictions : Representing Violence Across Cultures

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Year
2007
ISBN
9781443808927, 9781847180995
LCC
GN495.2 -- .V57 2006eb
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1173728 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
219\219
Time added
2023-08-04 07:26:20

Description

Anything and everything may come under the rubric of violence in a society that is by and large addicted to the images of violence that are an inescapable part of contemporary reality. In the wake of recent international events, many have come to accept the perpetration of violence as morally acceptable and a just enterprise towards peace. But what is violence? How do we identify something or somebody as violent? Is violence justifiable? If so, under what circumstances? Violent Depictions addresses these and other questions on the role and nature of violence in a range of different national and historical contexts.Violent Depictions is a reflection on the relationship between violence and representation and includes a number of thematic categories such as youth violence in films, violence against women in literary and cinematic texts, gendered representations of terrorism, the violence of colonial encounters and of the remembering of institutionalised violence.

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