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Author:   J. Potts ,  J. Scannell
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   3.164kg
ISBN:  

9781137440198

ISBN 10:   1137440198
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   16 November 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: What is the Unacceptable?; J.Potts  & J.Scannell PART I: THE SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE Power and the Unacceptable; M.Dean 'Schooling Scandals!': Exploring the Necessity of Cultural Disgust; C.Haywood Presumed Innocent: Picturing Childhood; C.Lumby The Sombrero Comes Out of the Closet: Gay Marriage in Mexico City and a Nation's Struggle for Identity; S.Ballina The Drug Cultures in France and the Netherlands (1960s-1980s): Banning or Regulating the 'Unacceptable'; A.Marchant 'When the Smoke Clears': Confronting Smoking Policy; J.Scannell PART II: REPRESENTING THE UNACCEPTABLE The Monstrous-Familial: Representations of the Unacceptable Family; J.Potts Unacceptability and Prosaic Life in Breaking Bad; E.Logan Sade's Constrained Libertinage: The Problem of Disgust; N.Stekelenburg Censorship in Performance in America: Freedom of Expression Has Limitations; T.R.Wilson Why Saying 'No' to Life is Unacceptable; C.Colebrook Index

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'The unacceptable tempts and tests us with new possibilities and unimaginable horrors. This fraught combination of creativity and destructiveness remains the perilous fault line where the most telling cultural tensions reveal themselves. Neither quick to condemn nor seduced by easy enthusiasm, this bold collection takes up the challenge of the theory and practice of the unacceptable, significantly advancing our understanding of the shifting limits of what we are allowed to think, say and be.' - Nick Mansfield, author of Masochism: the Art of Power, Theorizing War and The God Who Deconstructs Himself

The unacceptable tempts and tests us with new possibilities and unimaginable horrors. This fraught combination of creativity and destructiveness remains the perilous fault line where the most telling cultural tensions reveal themselves. Neither quick to condemn nor seduced by easy enthusiasm, this bold collection takes up the challenge of the theory and practice of the unacceptable, significantly advancing our understanding of the shifting limits of what we are allowed to think, say and be. - Nick Mansfield, author of Masochism: the Art of Power, Theorizing War and The God Who Deconstructs Himself

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SANTIAGO BALLINA Freelance writer, Mexico CLAIRE COLEBROOK Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University, USA MITCHELL DEAN Professor of Sociology, University of Newcastle, Australia CHRIS HAYWOOD Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of Newcastle, UK ELLIOTT LOGAN Researcher in the School of English, Media Studies, and Art History at the University of Queensland, Australia CATHARINE LUMBY Professor and Director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of NSW, Australia ALEXANDRE MARCHANT Teaching Assistant at University Paris X Nanterre, France NAOMI STEKELENBURG Former research psychologist at the Mental Health Research Institute and St Vincents Hospital in Melbourne, Australia TIMOTHY R. WILSON Professor of Theatre in the Department of Dance and Theatre at the University of North Texas, USA

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