The Art of Cruelty
A Reckoning
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2011]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 288 pages ; 22 cm
Discusses whether the brutal imagery present in reality and entertainment will shock society into a less alienated state and help create a just social order or whether focusing on representations of cruelty makes society more cruel.
Contents:
Styles of imprisonment -- Theaters of cruelty -- Great to watch -- Captivity, catharsis -- Everything is nice -- They're only dolls -- The golden rule -- Nobody said no -- The brutality of fact -- Who we are -- A situation of meat -- Precariousness -- Inflicted -- Face -- Rings of action -- Rarer and better things.
ISBN:
0393072150
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
ART Nel | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.