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Author:   Asbjørn Grønstad (University of Bergen, Norway) ,  Henrik Gustafsson (Orebro University, Sweden)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.640kg
ISBN:  

9780415893824

ISBN 10:   0415893828
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   03 April 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part 1: From Voyeurism to Visual Politics 1. Do Not Look at Y[O]our Own Peril: Voyeurism as Ethical Necessity, or To See as a Child Again Mark Ledbetter 2. Associates in Crime and Guilt Frank Möller 3. Painful Photographs: From the Ethics of Spectatorship to Visual Politics Mark ReinhardtPart 2: Looking In, Looking Away 4. The Violence of the Documentary Image: Errol Morris's Standard Operating ProcedureStefano Odorico 5. Visual Irruptions, Mediated Suffering, and the Robert Dziekanski Tragedy: An Inquiry into the Efficacy of the Image Tara H. Milbrandt 6. Tuning Out, Turning In, and Walking Off: The Film Spectator in Pain Mattias FreyPart 3: Performances 7. Imaging Pain Mieke Bal 8. The Unsettling Moment: On Mathilde ter Heijne's Suicide Trilogy Oyvind Vagnes 9. Gulag Follies Jody McAuliffePart 4: Mimetic and Mnemonic Frames 10. Imag(in)ing Painful Pasts: Mimetic and Poetic Style in War Films Holger Pötszch 11. The Sanctified Fallen: The War Film as Witness Tonje H. Sørensen 12. Medical Horror: Visual Documents From the History of Lobotomy Jon-Ove Steihaug

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Asbjorn Gronstad is a film scholar and professor of visual culture at the University of Bergen, and director of the Nomadikon Center at the department of Information Science and Media Studies. Henrik Gustafsson is a film scholar and post-doc fellow with the Nomadikon Research Group at the University of Bergen.

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