ISBN:
9781472535658
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
WISH list
Series Statement:
The WISH List Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Sensational Subjects : The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World
DDC:
149.97
Keywords:
Culture Psychological aspects
;
Postmodernism Psychological aspects
;
Experience
;
Culture ; Psychological aspects
;
Experience
;
Postmodernism ; Psychological aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Under what conditions does 'sensation' become 'sensational'? By the early nineteenth century murder had become the staple of the sensationalizing popular press, and gruesome descriptions were deployed to make a direct impact on the 'sensations' of the reader. Later, concern with the thrills, spills, and shocks of modern life was being articulated in the language of sensation, and media sensationalism was already being seen both as contributing to this process and as magnifying its impact, just as sensation was, in turn, taken up by literature, art and film. Finally, it seems as though the dr
Description / Table of Contents:
FC; Half Title; The WISH List; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; A Note to the Reader; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 Sensation and Sensationalism; 3 Sensational Processes; 4 The Aesthetics of Sensation; 5 The Distractions of the Modern; 6 Cinematic Sensation: The Sublime and the Spectacle; 7 Sensational Affect; 8 The Melodrama of the Modern; Notes; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
