| 书目名称 | The Fascination with Violence in Contemporary Society | | 副标题 | When Crime is Sublim | | 编辑 | Oriana Binik | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Explores a rich variety of cases studies that cluster around the guiding theme of the sublime.Fills a gap in the cultural criminology literature.Crosses over into psychoanalysis and trauma studies | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book directly explores the question of why contemporary society is so fascinated with violence and crime. .The Fascination with Violence in Contemporary Society. posits that the phenomenon is, in part, because we have all become consumers of the sublime: an intense and strongly ambiguous emotion which is increasingly commodified. Through the experience of violence and the sense of disorientation that accompanies it, we obsessively seek out moments of intensified existence. Equally, crime continues to speak to the depths of the collective unconscious, questioning us about our transience and the model of society we wish to live in. Binik proposes that this is why the reaction to violence has become a tool with which to express and take ownership of a desire for social cohesion. .This book uses interviews with viewers, dark tourists, collectors and others to further interrogate this social trend. Many of these are participants inthe four key case studies explored within the study: emotional pathways while watching a true-crime TV series, the trend of dark tourism, murderabilia collecting and the fanaticism of (and for) Anders Breivik. This book seeks to answer one of the most pre | | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | | 关键词 | dark tourism; cultural studies; cultural criminology; murder; violence; popular culture and crime; Anders | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26744-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-26746-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-26744-5 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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