Date : 2022
Type : Livre / Book
Langue / Language : anglais / English
ISBN : 978-1-78938507-6
EAN : 9781789385076
House of cards -- série télévisée
Télévision et politique -- États-Unis -- 1990-2020
Séries télévisées -- Aspect politique -- États-Unis -- 1990-2020
Crimes et délits politiques -- À la télévision -- États-Unis
Fictions politiques télévisées
Résumé / Abstract : Although, by all appearances, House of Cards is a television series about politics, it in fact explores some of the most subversive questions raised by Machiavelli's writings: what if the Prince were a ferocious animal? What would happen if our political world were overtaken by vampires? Would they be capable of mastering their bloodthirsty instincts, or would they remain true to their fundamental nature? In their relentless quest for power, Frank Underwood, his wife Claire and his chief of staff Doug Stamper are so ruthlessly ambitious that they demolish all boundaries between good and evil. According to a Machiavellian logic taken to its extreme, the specific necessity of a given situation always wins out over common morality. In the struggle for survival, these people are the predators, determined to come out on top whatever the cost. This book examines how the producers of the series take monstrous characters - who would not be out of place in a crime series or a horror film - and set them in the world of politics, which offers little resistance to violence and turns into a laboratory for systematic destruction. In this variation on the conflict between brutalization and civilization at the heart of power, the political sphere therefore becomes the scene of crime par excellence.