The Extreme in Contemporary Culture: States of Vulnerability

New York: Rowman & Littlefield International (2017)
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Examines extremity as a political and cultural phenomenon in the late 20th and early 21st century. It argues that we can discern a ‘continuum of extremes/extremity’ on which we may locate practices as diverse as Abu Ghraib, extreme sports, biomedical TV series and horror films.

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