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Carte Orgies of Feeling Elisabeth R Anker

Orgies of Feeling

Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom

Autor: Elisabeth R Anker
Limbă: engleză
Legare: Copertă tare
Editura: Duke University Press
Disponibilitate: În depozitul extern
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Melodrama is not just a film or literary genre but a powerful political discourse that galvanizes na...

Informații despre carte

Autor
Elisabeth R Anker
Limbă
engleză
Legare
Carte - Copertă tare
Publicat
2014
Pagini
352
EAN
9780822356868
ISBN
0822356864
Enbook ID
04731545
Editura
Duke University Press
Greutate
617
Dimensiuni
152 x 229 x 25

Descriere completă

Melodrama is not just a film or literary genre but a powerful political discourse that galvanizes national sentiment to legitimate state violence. Finding virtue in national suffering and heroism in sovereign action, melodramatic political discourses cast war and surveillance as moral imperatives for eradicating villainy and upholding freedom. In "Orgies of Feeling," Elisabeth R. Anker boldly reframes political theories of sovereignty, freedom, and power by analyzing the work of melodrama and affect in contemporary politics. Arguing that melodrama animates desires for unconstrained power, Anker examines melodramatic discourses in the War on Terror, neoliberal politics, anticommunist rhetoric, Hollywood film, and post-Marxist critical theory. Building on Friedrich Nietzsche's notion of "orgies of feeling," in which overwhelming emotions displace commonplace experiences of vulnerability and powerlessness onto a dramatic story of injured freedom, Anker contends that the recent upsurge in melodrama in the United States is an indication of public discontent. Yet the discontent that melodrama reflects is ultimately an expression of the public's inability to overcome systemic exploitation and inequality rather than an alarmist response to inflated threats to the nation.

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