Download or read book The Extreme in Contemporary Culture written by Pramod K. Nayar, Professor of English at the University of Hyderabad, India and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines extremity as a political and cultural phenomenon in the late 20th and early 21st century. It argues that we can discern a ‘continuum of extremes/extremity’ on which we may locate practices as diverse as Abu Ghraib, extreme sports, biomedical TV series and horror films.