Violent Affect: Literature, Cinema, and Critique After Representation

by Marco Abel

Book Overview

Violence: most of us would be happy if we never had to experience it, and many are driven by the belief that nonviolent spaces exist. In Violent Affect, however, Marco Abel starts from a different, potentially controversial assumption: namely that violence is all-pervasive by ontological necessity. In order to work through the implications of this provocation, Abel turns to literary and cinematic works such as those by Don DeLillo, Bret Easton...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803224818
• ISBN13: 9780803224810
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"