Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions

by Kathleen Woodward

Book Overview

In this moving and thoughtful book, Kathleen Woodward explores the politics and poetics of the emotions, focusing on American culture since the 1960s. She argues that we are constrained in terms of gender, race, and age by our culture's scripts for "emotional" behavior and that the accelerating impoverishment of interiority is a symptom of our increasingly media-saturated culture. She also shows how we can be empowered by stories that express our...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822343770
• ISBN13: 9780822343776
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.9"