Images from Paradise : : The Visual Communication of the European Union's Federalist Utopia / / Eszter Salgó.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Salgó, Eszter,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction THE (LONG-DESIRED) REBIRTH OF EUROPE’S “FANTASTIC FAMILY” --; PART I NUMINOUS STORIES ABOUT EUROPE’S REBIRTH --; CHAPTER 1 NEED FOR A PARADISE DREAM --; CHAPTER 2 MANIFESTATIONS OF EUROFEDERALISTS’ PARADISE DREAM --; CHAPTER 3 THE TALE OF SEDUCTIVE EUROPA --; PART II THE PROMISE OF A NEW SYMBOL --; CHAPTER 4 WELCOME TO THE CENTER OF THE EUROPEAN MANDALA! --; CHAPTER 5 EUROPA’S SACRED GAZE --; CHAPTER 6 THE EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK’S FABLES OF ABUNDANCE: IN BETWEEN SACRED RITUALS AND POLITICAL MARKETING --; PART III EUROPEAN FESTIVAL TALES --; CHAPTER 7 THE PROMISE OF EUROPEAN RITUALS --; CHAPTER 8 “RISE LIKE A PHOENIX” A NEW ANTHEM FOR (FEDERAL) EUROPE --; CHAPTER 9 THE 2014 ELECTIONS OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: PREPARING FOR A EUROPEAN CARNIVAL --; CONCLUDING REMARKS: THE EUROPEAN UNION’S (MAGIC-LESS) BRIDGE-BUILDERS --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785336195; 9783110998214
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785336195?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Eszter Salgó.

Drawing upon the disciplines of politics, anthropology, psychoanalysis, aesthetics and cinema studies, Salgó presents a new way of looking at the “art of European unification.” The official visual narratives of the European Union constitute the main object of inquiry – the iconography of the new series of euro banknotes and the videos through which the supranational elite seek to generate “collective effervescence,” allow for a European carnival to take place, and prompt citizens to pledge allegiance to the sacred dogma of the “ever closer union,” thereby strengthening the mythical sources of the organization’s legitimacy. The author seeks to illustrate how and why the federalist utopia turned into a political soteriology after the outbreak of the 2008 crisis.