Intensive Media [electronic resource] : Aversive Affect and Visual Culture /
McCosker, A.author.
There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of human suffering. Intensive Media explores the discomfort and fascination initiated by instances of pain and suffering, their 'aversive affects', as they trouble but also vitalise contemporary media environments.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- ContentsAcknowledgements1.Pain: Aversive Affects and Micropolitics2.War: Visual Brutality and Affective Vectors3.Torture: Obscenity and Complicity, from East Timor to Abu Ghraib4.Disaster: Intensive Encounters with Scenes of Suffering5.Masochism: Painful Pleasures6.Salvation: Medieval Techniques, New Affective Communities7.Illness: Putting it All OnlineEpilogueNotesWorks CitedIndex.
There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of human suffering. Intensive Media explores the discomfort and fascination initiated by instances of pain and suffering, their 'aversive affects', as they trouble but also vitalise contemporary media environments.
Motion pictures-History.
Social medicine.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Culture.
Communication.
Film genres.
Film History.
Medical Sociology.
Regional and Cultural Studies.
Sociology of Culture.
Media Studies.
Genre.