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oapen-20.500.12657-587812022-10-15T03:21:01Z Sensational Subjects Jervis, John Literature: history and criticism Philosophy: aesthetics Political science and theory bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPN Philosophy: aesthetics bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBH Literary studies: from c 1900 - bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPA Political science & theory bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio::APF Films, cinema::APFA Film theory & criticism bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFC Cultural studies This 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. 2022-10-14T14:53:41Z 2022-10-14T14:53:41Z 2015 book ONIX_20221014_9781472535658_112 9781472535658 9781472535641 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58781 eng The WISH List application/pdf n/a 9781472535658.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781472593023 10.5040/9781472593023 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781472535658 9781472535641 Bloomsbury Academic 224 London open access
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This 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.
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