238 Pages
28 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
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28 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
262 Pages
28 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Few phenomena are as formative of our experience of the visual world as displays of suffering. But what does it mean to have an ethical experience of disturbing or traumatizing images? What kind of ethical proposition does an image of pain mobilize? How may the spectator learn from and make use of the painful image as a source of ethical reflection? Engaging with a wide range of visual media--from... Read more
Introduction I. From Voyeurism to Visual Politics 1. Do Not Look at Y[O]our Own Peril: Voyeurism as Ethical Necessity, or To See as a Child Again Mark Ledbetter 2. Associates in Crime and Guilt Frank Möller 3. Painful Photographs: From the Ethics of Spectatorship to Visual Politics Mark Reinhardt II. Looking In, Looking Away 4. The Violence of the Documentary Image: Errol Morris's Standard Operating Procedure Stefano Odorico 5. Visual Irruptions, Mediated Suffering, and the Robert Dziekanski Tragedy: An Inquiry into the Efficacy of the Image Tara H. Milbrandt 6. Tuning Out, Turning In, and Walking Off: The Film Spectator in Pain Mattias Frey III. Performances 7. Imaging Pain Mieke Bal 8. The Unsettling Moment: On Mathilde ter Heijne's Suicide Trilogy Oyvind Vagnes 9. Gulag Follies Jody McAuliffe V. Mimetic and Mnemonic Frames 10. Imag(in)ing Painful Pasts: Mimetic and Poetic Style in War Films Holger Pötszch 11. The Sanctified Fallen: The War Film as Witness Tonje H. Sørensen 12. Medical Horror: Visual Documents From the History of Lobotomy Jon-Ove Steihaug
Biography
Asbjørn Grønstad is a film scholar and professor of visual culture at the University of Bergen, and director of the Nomadikon Center at the department of Information Science and Media Studies.
Henrik Gustafsson is a film scholar and post-doc fellow with the Nomadikon Research Group at the University of Bergen.
