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UNINA9910779016403321 |
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Titolo |
Ethics and images of pain / / edited by AsbjØrn GrØnstad and Henrik Gustafsson |
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New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-45305-9 |
1-280-66119-4 |
9786613638120 |
1-136-45306-7 |
0-203-12590-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (263 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge advances in art and visual studies ; ; 1 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GrØnstadAsbjØrn |
GustafssonHenrik |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Art - Moral and ethical aspects |
Mass media - Moral and ethical aspects |
Pain in art |
Pain in mass media |
Pain in the performing arts |
Performing arts - Moral and ethical aspects |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Ethics and Images of Pain; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; PART I: From Voyeurism to Visual Politics; 1. Do Not Look at Y/Our Own Peril: Voyeurism as Ethical Necessity, or To See as a Child Again; 2. Associates in Crime and Guilt; 3. Painful Photographs: From the Ethics of Spectatorship to Visual Politics; PART II: Looking In, Looking Away; 4. The Violence of the Documentary Image: Errol Morris's Standard Operating Procedure |
5. Visual Irruptions, Mediated Suffering, and the Robert Dziekanski Tragedy: An Inquiry into the Effi cacy of the Image6. Tuning Out, Turning In, and Walking Off : The Film Spectator in Pain; PART III: |
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Performances; 7. Imaging Pain; 8. The Unsettling Moment: On Mathilde ter Heijne's Suicide Trilogy; 9. Gulag Follies; PART IV: Mimetic and Mnemonic Frames; 10. Imag(in)ing Painful Pasts: Mimetic and Poetic Style in War Films; 11. The Sanctifi ed Fallen: The War Film as Witness; 12. Medical Horror: Visual Documents From the History of Lobotomy; Contributers; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 painting, theatre, and sculpture, to photography, film, and video--this interdisciplinary collection of essays by leading and emerging scholars of visual culture offers a reappraisal of the increasin |
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