Truth in Visual Media: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics

ISBN-13: 9781474474474 / Angielski

Marguerite La Caze; Ted Nannicelli

Opis

Shows how aesthetic, ethical, and political questions intersect in a range of art forms as found in traditional media.

Spis treści

Introduction, Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli; Part I: Aesthetics; 1: Repair and the Irreparable in Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Susan Best; 2: Circulating Bodies: Retelling the Trauma of the Algerian War through Photography and Art, Amy L. Hubbell; 3: An I for an Eye: The Collective Shaping of Experience in the Age of Machine-Mediated Art, Ellen Saethre-McGuirk; Part II: Ethics; 4: The Ethics of Filmmaking: How the Genetic History of Works Affects their Value, Mette Hjort; 5: The Look of Silence and the Ethics of Atonement, Marguerite La Caze; 6: Truth, Performance, and the Close-Up: Paradoxical Candour in Errol Morris’ “Interrotron” Interviews, Robert Sinnerbrink; 7: Mindhunter: The Possibility of Knowing Evil Damian Cox; Part III: Politics; 8: Interactive Documentary, Narrative Scepticism, and the Values of Documentary Film, Ted Nannicelli; 9: Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children! On the Moralisation of Video Game Violence, Grant Tavinor; 10: Re-Reading Personal Influence in an Age of Social Media, Tom O’Regan; 11: Principles of Exchange: Free Speech in the era of Fake News, Kris Fallon; Notes on Contributors