Ethics and images of pain
By: edited by Asbjørn Grønstad & Henrik Gustafsson
Series: Routledge advances in art and visual studies -- 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780415893824
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Art; Mass media; Pain in the performing arts; Pain in mass media; Performing arts; Pain in art
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: From voyeurism to visual politics. Do not look at y/our own peril: voyeurism as ethical necessity, or to see as a child again / Mark Ledbetter; title: Associates in crime and guilt / Frank Muller; title: Painful photographs: from the ethics of spectatorship to visual politics / Mark Reinhardt; title: Looking in, looking away. The violence of the documentary image: Errol Morris's standard operating procedure / Stefano Odorico; title: Visual irruptions, mediated suffering, and the Robert Dziekanski tragedy: an inquiry into the efficacy of the image / Tara H. Milbrandt; title: Tuning out, turning in, and walking off: the film spectator in pain / Mattias Frey; title: Performances. Imaging pain / Mieke Bal; title: The unsettling moment: on Mathilde Ter Heijne's Suicide trilogy / Øyvind Vågnes; title: Gulag follies / Jody McAuliffe; title: Mimetic and mnemonic frames. Imag(in)ing painful pasts: mimetic and poetic style in war films / Holger Putzsch; title: The sanctified Fallen: the war film as witness / Tonje H. Sorensen; title: Medical horror: visual documents from the history of lobotomy / Jon-Ove Steihaug.