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Titolo: Ethics and images of pain / / edited by Asbjrn Grnstad and Henrik Gustafsson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Routledge, 2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
Disciplina: 700.453
700/.453
701
Soggetto topico: 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
Altri autori: GrnstadAsbjrn  
GustafssonHenrik  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Ethics and images of pain  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-136-45305-9
1-280-66119-4
9786613638120
1-136-45306-7
0-203-12590-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825924503321
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Serie: Routledge advances in art and visual studies ; ; 1.