Ethics and images of pain - Grønstad, Asbjørn; Gustafsson, Henrik (New York : Routledge, 2012)
Introduction -- From voyeurism to visual politics. Do not look at y/our own peril: voyeurism as ethical necessity, or to see as a child again / Mark Ledbetter -- Associates in crime and guilt / Frank Muller -- Painful photographs: from the ethics of spectatorship to visual politics / Mark Reinhardt -- Looking in, looking away. The violence of the documentary image: Errol Morris's standard operating procedure / Stefano Odorico -- Visual irruptions, mediated suffering, and the Robert Dziekanski tragedy: an inquiry into the efficacy of the image / Tara H. Milbrandt -- Tuning out, turning in, and walking off: the film spectator in pain / Mattias Frey -- Performances. Imaging pain / Mieke Bal -- The unsettling moment: on Mathilde Ter Heijne's Suicide trilogy / Øyvind Vågnes -- Gulag follies / Jody McAuliffe -- Mimetic and mnemonic frames. Imag(in)ing painful pasts: mimetic and poetic style in war films / Holger Putzsch -- The sanctified Fallen: the war film as witness / Tonje H. Sorensen -- Medical horror: visual documents from the history of lobotomy / Jon-Ove Steihaug.
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Keywords: Pain in art; Pain in the performing arts; Pain in mass media; Art -- Moral and ethical aspects; Performing arts -- Moral and ethical aspects; Mass media -- Moral and ethical aspects; Electronic books