@article{292339,
      recid = {292339},
      author = {Sontag, Susan,},
      title = {Regarding the pain of others /},
      publisher = {Picador,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {131 p. ;},
      year = {2004},
      abstract = {Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of  atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of  spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence  by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the  viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal  availability of imagery intended to shock? In this  investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan  Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures  can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh  look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The  Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War,  lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz  to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone,  Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001. Sontag's  new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of  "information", "news," "art," and politics in the  contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will forever  alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in  our world.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/292339},
}