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The art of cruelty : a reckoning /

By: Nelson, Maggie, 1973-.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2011Description: 288 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 0393072150; 9780393072150; 9780393072150; 9780393343144; 0393343146.Subject(s): Cruelty in art | Good and evil in art | Social influence | Torture | Art -- Moral and ethical aspects | Social ethics -- United StatesDDC classification: 700.453 NEL
Contents:
Styles of imprisonment -- Theaters of cruelty -- Great to watch -- Captivity, catharsis -- Everything is nice -- They're only dolls -- The golden rule -- Nobody said no -- The brutality of fact -- Who we are -- A situation of meat -- Precariousness -- Inflicted -- Face -- Rings of action -- Rarer and better things.
Summary: Discusses whether the brutal imagery present in reality and entertainment will shock society into a less alienated state and help create a just social order or whether focusing on. representations of cruelty makes society more cruel.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 700.453 NEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0082115
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Styles of imprisonment -- Theaters of cruelty -- Great to watch -- Captivity, catharsis -- Everything is nice -- They're only dolls -- The golden rule -- Nobody said no -- The brutality of fact -- Who we are -- A situation of meat -- Precariousness -- Inflicted -- Face -- Rings of action -- Rarer and better things.

Discusses whether the brutal imagery present in reality and entertainment will shock society into a less alienated state and help create a just social order or whether focusing on. representations of cruelty makes society more cruel.

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