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The Politics of everyday fear / Brian Massumi, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fear in literature.
- Popular literature--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- Horror in mass media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The contemporary consumer is bombarded with fear-inducing images and information. This media shower of imagery is equalled only by the sheer quantity of fear-assuaging products offered for our consumption. The contributors address questions raised by the saturation of social space by capitalized fear.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Buying and being at the border
- pt. 2. Mutations of domination
- pt. 3. Dominations of mutation
- pt. 4. The traffic in morbidity
- pt. 5. Buying and being at the edge
- pt. 6. Screening : home and nation.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-325) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8472-3
- OCLC:
- 476093379
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