Killer images : documentary film, memory and the performance of violence / edited by Joram Ten Brink & Joshua Oppenheimer.
Ten Brink, Joram.; Oppenheimer, Joshua, 1974-
2012
PN1995.9.D6 K474 2012
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Title Killer images : documentary film, memory and the performance of violence / edited by Joram Ten Brink & Joshua Oppenheimer.
ISBN 9780231163354 (cloth : alk. paper)
0231163355 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231163354 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0231163355 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780231850247 (electronic book)
Published London : Wallflower Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Description 1 online resource (343 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number PN1995.9.D6 K474 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43/6581
Summary 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 academics and documentary filmmakers, including Ben Anderson, Errol Morris, Harun Farocki, Rithy Phan, Avi Mograbi, Brian Winston, and Michael Chanan.
Note 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 academics and documentary filmmakers, including Ben Anderson, Errol Morris, Harun Farocki, Rithy Phan, Avi Mograbi, Brian Winston, and Michael Chanan.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Added Author Ten Brink, Joram.
Oppenheimer, Joshua, 1974-
Series Nonfictions
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Acknowledgments
Notes on contributors
Introduction / Joram ten Brink & Joshua Oppenheimer
(De)activating empathy
Publicity and indifference : media, surveillance and 'humanitarian intervention' / Thomas Keenan
Shooting with intent : framing conflict / Alisa Lebow
Immersion (2009) / Harun Farocki
Anaesthetising the image : Immersion, Harun Farcocki [sic] / Kodwo Eshun
Revisiting Rocha's 'Aesthetics of Violence' / Michael Chanan
Memory of violence : visualising trauma
Ça va de soi : the visual representation of violence in the Holocaust documentary / Brian Winston
Screen memory in Waltz with Bashir / Garrett Stewart
Animating trauma : Waltz with Bashir, David Polonsky / Joram ten Brink
Spaces of violence : history, horror and the cinema of Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Adam Lowenstein
On historical violence and aesthetic form : Jean-Luc Godard's Allemagne 90 Neuf Zero / Daniel Morgan
Battle for history : appropriating the past in the present
Subverting dominant historical narratives : Avenge but one of my two eyes, Avi Mograbi / Joram ten Brink
Re-enactment, the history of violence and documentary film / Joran ten Brink
Interpreting Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave / Alice Correia
Remediating genocidal images into artworks : the case of the Tuol Sleng mug shots / Stephanie Benzaquen
Screening the 1965 violence / Ariel Heryanto
Performing violence
Perpetrator's testimony and the restoration of humanity : S21, Rithy Panh / Joshua Oppenheimer
The killer's search for absolution : Z32, Avi Mograbi / Joram ten Brink
Impunity / Benedict Anderson
Show of force : a cinema-seance of power and violence in Sumatra's plantation belt / Joshua Oppenheimer & Michael Uwemedimo
Misunderstanding images : standard operating procedure, Errol Morris / Joshua Oppenheimer.

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