Killer Images Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence

Name: Killer Images Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence
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ISBN: 9780231163354

ISBN-10: 0231163355

ISBN-13: 9780231163354

Edition: 2012

Authors: Joram ten Brink, Joshua Oppenheimer

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Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the moving image is implicated in the imaginations and actions of perpetrators and survivors of violence is all the more urgent. If the cinematic image and mass violence are among the defining features of modernity, the former is significantly implicated in the latter, and the nature of this implication is the book's central focus. This edited anthology brings together a range of newly commissioned essays and interviews from the world's leading…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Publication date: 1/8/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 0.59" wide x 0.97" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Notes on Contributors


Introduction



(De)Activating Empathy


Publicity and indifference: Media, Surveillance and 'Humanitarian Intervention'



Shooting with Intent: Framing Conflict



Immersion (2009)



Anaesthetising the Image: Immersion, Harun Farcocki



Revisiting Rocha's 'Aesthetics of Violence'



Memory of Violence: Visualising Trauma


ï¿½a va de soi: The Visual Representation of Violence in the Holocaust Documentary



Screen Memory in Waltz with Bashir



Animating Trauma: Waltz with Bashir, David Polonsky



Spaces of Violence: History, Horror and the Cinema of Kiyoshi Kurosawa



On Historical Violence and Aesthetic Form: Jean-Luc Godard's Allemagne 90 Neuf Zï¿½ro



Battle for History: Appropriating the Past in the Present


Subverting Dominant Historical Narratives: Avenge But One of My Two Eyes, Avi Mograbi



Re-enactment, the History of Violence and Documentary Film



Interpreting Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave



Remediating Genocidal Images into Artworks: The Case of the Tuol Sleng Mug Shots



Screening the 1965 Violence



Performing Violence


Perpetrators' Testimony and the Restoration of Humanity: S21, Rithy Panh



The Killer's Search for Absolution: Z32, Avi Mograbi



Impunity



Show of Force: A Cinema-sï¿½ance of Power and Violence in Sumatra's Plantation Belt



Misunderstanding images: Standard Operating Procedure, Errol Morris



Index