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Orgies of Feeling
Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom
Taschenbuch von Elisabeth R. Anker
Sprache: Englisch

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Melodrama is not just a film or literary genre but a powerful political discourse that galvanizes national sentiment to legitimate state violence. Finding virtue in national suffering and heroism in sovereign action, melodramatic political discourses cast war and surveillance as moral imperatives for eradicating villainy and upholding freedom. In Orgies of Feeling, Elisabeth R. Anker boldly reframes political theories of sovereignty, freedom, and power by analyzing the work of melodrama and affect in contemporary politics. Arguing that melodrama animates desires for unconstrained power, Anker examines melodramatic discourses in the War on Terror, neoliberal politics, anticommunist rhetoric, Hollywood film, and post-Marxist critical theory. Building on Friedrich Nietzsche's notion of "orgies of feeling," in which overwhelming emotions displace commonplace experiences of vulnerability and powerlessness onto a dramatic story of injured freedom, Anker contends that the recent upsurge in melodrama in the United States is an indication of public discontent. Yet the discontent that melodrama reflects is ultimately an expression of the public's inability to overcome systemic exploitation and inequality rather than an alarmist response to inflated threats to the nation.
Melodrama is not just a film or literary genre but a powerful political discourse that galvanizes national sentiment to legitimate state violence. Finding virtue in national suffering and heroism in sovereign action, melodramatic political discourses cast war and surveillance as moral imperatives for eradicating villainy and upholding freedom. In Orgies of Feeling, Elisabeth R. Anker boldly reframes political theories of sovereignty, freedom, and power by analyzing the work of melodrama and affect in contemporary politics. Arguing that melodrama animates desires for unconstrained power, Anker examines melodramatic discourses in the War on Terror, neoliberal politics, anticommunist rhetoric, Hollywood film, and post-Marxist critical theory. Building on Friedrich Nietzsche's notion of "orgies of feeling," in which overwhelming emotions displace commonplace experiences of vulnerability and powerlessness onto a dramatic story of injured freedom, Anker contends that the recent upsurge in melodrama in the United States is an indication of public discontent. Yet the discontent that melodrama reflects is ultimately an expression of the public's inability to overcome systemic exploitation and inequality rather than an alarmist response to inflated threats to the nation.
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Elisabeth R. Anker
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom 1
1. The Venomous Eye: Melodrama, Media, and National Identity after 9/11 31
2. The Melodramatic Style of American Politics: A Transnational History 65
3. Felt Legitimacy: Victimization and Affect in the Expansion of State Power 110
4. Orgies of Feeling: Terror, Agency, and the Failure of the (Neo)Liberal Individual 149
5. Heroic Identifications; or, You Can Love Me Too—I Am So like the State 180
6. Left Melodrama 203
Conclusion. Melodramas of Failed Sovereignty: The War on Terror as a Women's Weepie 225
Notes 259
Bibliography 307
Index
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780822356974
ISBN-10: 082235697X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Anker, Elisabeth R.
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Elisabeth R. Anker
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.08.2014
Gewicht: 0,513 kg
Artikel-ID: 105473293
Über den Autor
Elisabeth R. Anker
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom 1
1. The Venomous Eye: Melodrama, Media, and National Identity after 9/11 31
2. The Melodramatic Style of American Politics: A Transnational History 65
3. Felt Legitimacy: Victimization and Affect in the Expansion of State Power 110
4. Orgies of Feeling: Terror, Agency, and the Failure of the (Neo)Liberal Individual 149
5. Heroic Identifications; or, You Can Love Me Too—I Am So like the State 180
6. Left Melodrama 203
Conclusion. Melodramas of Failed Sovereignty: The War on Terror as a Women's Weepie 225
Notes 259
Bibliography 307
Index
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780822356974
ISBN-10: 082235697X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Anker, Elisabeth R.
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Elisabeth R. Anker
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.08.2014
Gewicht: 0,513 kg
Artikel-ID: 105473293
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