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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460928503321

Titolo

Visualizing violence in francophone cultures / / edited by Magali Compan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-8488-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Disciplina

700.4552

Soggetti

Violence in art

Violence - French-speaking countries

Violence in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

Visualizing Violence in Francophone Cultures brings together two complex and powerful loci of meaning: violence and the visual. As such, it offers a comprehensive overview from which one can gain a better understanding of the complexity of the visual rhetoric of violence. The visual representations of violence explored in this volume include both fictional works, including, for example, narrative films, graphic novels, and theatre, and non-fictional genres, such as news media and cultural artifacts. This volume's strength is also grounded in its interdisciplinary approach; by bringing together