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    Fascination with Violence in Contemporary Society

Fascination with Violence in Contemporary Society

Oriana Binik
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      This book directly explores the question of why contemporary society is so fascinated with violence and crime. The Fascination with Violence in Contemporary Society posits that the phenomenon is, in part, because we have all become consumers of the sublime: an intense and strongly ambiguous emotion which is increasingly commodified. Through the experience of violence and the sense of disorientation that accompanies it, we obsessively seek out moments of intensified existence. Equally, crime continues to speak to the depths of the collective unconscious, questioning us about our transience and the model of society we wish to live in. Binik proposes that this is why the reaction to violence has become a tool with which to express and take ownership of a desire for social cohesion. This book uses interviews with viewers, dark tourists, collectors and others to further interrogate this social trend. Many of these are participants in the four key case studies explored within the study: emotional pathways while watching a true-crime TV series, the trend of dark tourism, murderabilia collecting and the fanaticism of (and for) Anders Breivik. This book seeks to answer one of the most pressing cultural trends of the modern age and fill in a gap in the criminological literature on the subject. 
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Oriana Binik EAN: 9783030267438 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 529 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-11-06 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Cultural studies, Popular culture, Media studies, Sociology, Crime and criminology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

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      Oriana Binik is a research fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.
      This book directly explores the question of why contemporary society is so fascinated with violence and crime. The Fascination with Violence in Contemporary Society posits that the phenomenon is, in part, because we have all become consumers of the sublime: an intense and strongly ambiguous emotion which is increasingly commodified. Through the experience of violence and the sense of disorientation that accompanies it, we obsessively seek out moments of intensified existence. Equally, crime continues to speak to the depths of the collective unconscious, questioning us about our transience and the model of society we wish to live in. Binik proposes that this is why the reaction to violence has become a tool with which to express and take ownership of a desire for social cohesion. This book uses interviews with viewers, dark tourists, collectors and others to further interrogate this social trend. Many of these are participants in the four key case studies explored within the study: emotional pathways while watching a true-crime TV series, the trend of dark tourism, murderabilia collecting and the fanaticism of (and for) Anders Breivik. This book seeks to answer one of the most pressing cultural trends of the modern age and fill in a gap in the criminological literature on the subject. 
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Oriana Binik EAN: 9783030267438 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 529 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2019-11-06 CITY: GENRE: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Cultural studies, Popular culture, Media studies, Sociology, Crime and criminology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology

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      Oriana Binik is a research fellow at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy.

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