The domination of fear [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mikko Canini

• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam, : Editions Rodopi, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 p.)
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetto topico: Terrorism; Terrorism - Government policy; Terrorism and mass media; Terrorism in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: CaniniMikko
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. Cultural materialisation of fear, horror, terror -- pt. 2. Fear, horror and politics -- pt. 3. Fear, horror and literature.
• Sommario/riassunto: The tropes of fear, horror and terror have come to play a dominant role the analysis of contemporary social life. The predominance of fear, as the frame through which we narrativize experience, can be perceived readily echoing across various fields from theoretical research, to the mass media, to the quotidian. Despite the commonly held view that fear is a primitive and universal affect, its definition, potential value, and perceived effects vary wildly in each instance. From literary theory to psychoanalysis to politics to philosophy, this collection of research attempts to both flesh-out these tropes and to complexify them. Individually, the essays reflect a diversity of approaches to the constellation: fear, horror and terror. Taken as a whole, they produce the ground for an analysis of the dominance of fear.
• Titolo autorizzato: The domination of fear
• ISBN: 1-282-72719-2; 9786612727191; 90-420-3085-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459312203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: At the interface/probing the boundaries ; ; v. 70.