Aesthetics of Violence - Art, Fiction, Drama and Film

Offering an ambitious study of the aesthetics of violence across art, literature, film and theatre, this volume brings together traditional German aesthetic and social theory with the modern problem of violence in art. Written in an engaging style, the book includes examples ranging from Homer and Shakespeare to slasher films and performance art.

List of contents

1. Playing with Violence / 2. Hansel or Gretel / 3. Winners and Losers / 4. Revelry / 5. Puzzle / Epilogue: Art Without Violence, Violence Without Art / Bibliography / Index

About the author

Robert Appelbaum is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the author of Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge UP, 2002), Dishing It Out (Reaktion, 2011), Working the Aisles: A Life in Consumption (Zero, 2014) and Terrorism Before the Letter: the Mythography of Political Violence in England, Scotland and France (Oxford UP, 2015).

Summary

Offering an ambitious study of the aesthetics of violence across art, literature, film and theatre, this volume brings together traditional German aesthetic and social theory with the modern problem of violence in art. Written in an engaging style, the book includes examples range from Homer and Shakespeare to slasher films and performance art.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Appelbaum
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781786605030
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-503-0
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Futures of the Archive; Futures of the Archive
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; The arts: general issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, Films, cinema, Theatre Studies, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Literature: history and criticism, The arts: general topics