1st Edition
Learning How to Fall Art and Culture after September 11
By T Nikki Cesare Schotzko
Copyright 2015
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Beginning with Richard Drew’s controversial photograph of a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, Learning How to Fall investigates the changing relationship between world events and their subsequent documentation, asking:
Does the mediatization of the event overwhelm the fact of the event itself?
How does the mode by which information is... Read more
Epigraph
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Additional Citations
Acknowledgments
- Preface Always Ever Falling
- Introduction The Economy of the Event
- Chapter One If Not Falling Then Flying: Richard Drew’s Falling Man and The Politics of Witnessing
- Chapter Two The Untruth of Style: From Abramović to Bradshaw and Back Again
- Chapter Three Not Yet Finished, Never Yet Begun: Aliza Shvarts, the Girl from West Virginia, and the Consequence of Doubt
- Chapter Four Speaking Truth to Stupid: Aaron Sorkin’s Episode "5/1" and the Reassignment of Truth
- Chapter Five How Time Flies: A Chronometry of the Fall
- Afterword Afterword, After Phelan: Notes on Love, for My Students
Index
Biography
T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto.
