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dc.contributor.authorJervis, John
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-14T14:53:41Z
dc.date.available2022-10-14T14:53:41Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifierONIX_20221014_9781472535658_112
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58781
dc.description.abstractThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Under what conditions does ‘sensation’ become ‘sensational’? In the early nineteenth century murder was a staple of the sensationalizing popular press and gruesome descriptions were deployed to make a direct impact on the sensations of the reader. By the end of the century, public concern with the thrills, spills, and shocks of modern life was increasingly articulated in the language of sensation. Media sensationalism contributed to this process and magnified its impact, just as sensation was, in turn, taken up by literature, art and film. In the contemporary world the dramatization of these experiences in an era of media panics over terrorism and paedophilia has taken an overtly melodramatic form, in which battles of good and evil play out across the landscapes of our lives. Sensational Subjects develops an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to exploring these themes, their impact and their implications for understanding the modern world. A companion volume, Sympathetic Sentiments: Affect, Emotion and Spectacle in the Modern World is published simultaneously by Bloomsbury.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThe WISH List
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPN Philosophy: aesthetics
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: from c 1900 -
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPA Political science & theory
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema::APFA Film theory & criticism
dc.subject.classificationbic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies
dc.subject.otherLiterature: history and criticism
dc.subject.otherPhilosophy: aesthetics
dc.subject.otherPolitical science and theory
dc.titleSensational Subjects
dc.title.alternativeThe Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.5040/9781472593023
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b
oapen.relation.isbn9781472535658
oapen.relation.isbn9781472535641
oapen.imprintBloomsbury Academic
oapen.pages224
oapen.place.publicationLondon


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