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At the Limit: Violence in Contemporary Representation

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited StatesCMS.840
Free, no sign-up neededFall 2013English
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This course focuses on novels and films from the last twenty-five years (nominally 1985–2010) marked by their relationship to extreme violence and transgression. Our texts will focus on serial killers, torture, rape, and brutality, but they also explore notions of American history, gender and sexuality, and reality television—sometimes, they delve into love or time or the redemptive role of art in late modernity.

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