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The image and the witness : trauma, memory and visual culture
- Title
- The image and the witness : trauma, memory and visual culture / edited by Frances Guerin and Roger Hallas.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2007.
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| Text | Use in library | P96.D62 I43 2007 | Off-site |
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- Description
- ix, 263 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture is a timely interdisciplinary collection of original essays concerning the ethical stakes of the image in our visually-saturated age. It explores the role of the material image in bearing witness to historical events and the visual representation of witnesses to collective trauma. In arguing for the agency of the image, this unique collection debates post-traumatic memory, documentary ethics, embodied vision, and the recycling of images. It discusses works by Chris Marker, Errol Morris, Derek Jarman, Doris Salcedo, Gerhard Richter, and Boris Mikhailov, along with images from popular culture, including websites and home movies. Films discussed include Hiroshima mon amour (1959), Blue (1993) and Level 5 (1996).
- Series Statement
- Nonfictions
- Uniform Title
- Nonfictions.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Portraits of presence: excavating traumatic identity in contemporary Catalan testimonies / Camila Loew -- Sound, image and the corporeal implication of witnessing in Derek Jarman's Blue / Roger Hallas -- Symbolic bodies, real pain: post-Soviet history, Boris Mikhailov and the impasse of documentary photography / Matthias Christen -- Re-collecting the collective: mediatised memory and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Stephanie Marlin-Curiel -- Since we forgot: remembrance and recognition of the Armenian genocide in virtual archives / Leshu Torchin -- False witness: combat entertainment and citizen training in the United States / Karen J. Hall -- The Grey space between: Gerhard Richter's 18. Oktober 1977 / Frances Guerin -- A Game that must be lost: Chris Marker replays Alain Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour / Jonathan Kear -- The Domestic vision of Vietnam home movies / Guy Westwell -- Constructing the image of postmemory / Tina Wasserman -- Haunting absences: witnessing loss in Doris Salcedo's Atrabilarios and beyond / Edlie L. Wong -- Picturing ruinscapes: the aerial photograph as image of historical trauma / Davide Deriu -- Not looking at lynching photographs / James Polchin -- Here and then: the act of remembering in Richard Dindo's documentaries / Marcy Goldberg -- Megatronic memories: Errol Morris and the politics of witnessing / Devin Orgeron, Marsha Orgeron.
- ISBN
- 9781905674190
- 1905674198
- 9781905674206
- 1905674201
- OCLC
- ocn144223479
- 144223479
- SCSB-1457990
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library