Description
This book considers how the unacknowledged legacy of a totalitarian mentality has seeped into the deepest recesses of everyday popular culture, and ask whether the 'concentrationary' now infests our cultural imaginary.
About the Author
Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History at the University of Leeds. Her publications include Visual Politics of Psychoanalysis: Art and the Image in Post-Traumatic Cultures (2013). Pollock is Series Editor of Bloomsbury's New Encounters Series. Max Silverman is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Leeds. His publications include Palimpsestic Memory: the Holocaust and Colonialism in French and Francophone Fiction and Film (2013). Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman are joint authors of Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's 'Night and Fog', which won the Kraszna-Krausz Award for Best Book on the Moving Image, 2011. They are also joint editors of Concentrationary Memories: Totalitarian Terror and Cultural Resistance, the first of three volumes on the Concentrationary in New Encounters Series, of which Concentrationary Imaginaries is the second to be published.
Book Information
ISBN 9781350229556
Author Griselda Pollock
Format Paperback
Page Count 330
Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Series New Encounters: Arts, Cultures, Concepts
Weight(grams) 732g