Mark Seltzer
The Official World
- ISBN 13:
- 9780822361008
- author:
- Mark Seltzer
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Duke University Press Books First Edition edition
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Pages:
- 312
- Dimensions:
- 15.2 x 1.8 x 23.1 cm
- Genre:
- Poetry, Drama & Criticism, History & Criticism, Literary Theory & Movements, Mark Seltzer,The Official World,Duke University Press Books,0822361000,Literary Theory,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Crime in mass media,Crime in popu
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
The Official World by Mark Seltzer explores how suspense as an art form and way of life reflects and shapes our modern world. Our society's desire for reality is insatiable, leading to a continuous process of self-description that establishes its own conditions. Seltzer draws on the work of social theorists such as Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman, Niklas Luhmann, and Peter Sloterdijk to examine how suspense novels, films, and performance art reveal the stress-points and mood-systems of our modern epoch. By focusing on social games, violent characters, and a cast of observers who report and reenact, suspense art creates and recreates modern systems of action and autonomy. This book provides insight into the reflexive, self-legislating world we live in, where humans are part of complex systems that define our practices and aesthetics.
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