Violence and the Limits of Representation

1. Introduction: Violence and the Limits of Representation
Graham Matthews, Sam Goodman

2. The Violence of Representation and the Representation of Violence
Benjamin Noys

3. Violence and Love (in Which Yoko Ono Encourages Slavoj Žižek to ‘Give Peace a Chance’)
Scott Wilson

4. (Im)material Violence: Discipline and the Gaze in James Kelman’s How Late It Was, How Late

Graham Matthews

5. Sadeian Women: Erotic Violence in the Surrealist Spectacle
Catriona McAra

6. Demarcating Violence in the Dramaturgy of Lisa McGee’s Girls and Dolls

Rosalind Haslett

7. ‘Skeletons of Solid Objects’: Imperial Violence in J.G. Farrell’s Empire Trilogy

Sam Goodman

8. Contingent Violence: Bergson and the Comedy of Horrors in Schindler’s List

John Mullarkey

9. Violence and Mediation: The Ethics of Spectatorship in the Twenty-First Century Horror Film
Xavier Aldana Reyes

10. Objects of Surprise: Violence, Security, and Metaphysics
Robert Jackson

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, Genre, Literary Theory, Crime and Society, Media Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies