Truth in Visual Media : : Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics / / ed. by Ted Nannicelli, Marguerite La Caze.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• MitwirkendeR: Best, Susan,; Cox, Damian,; Fallon, Kris,; Hjort, Mette,; Hubbell, Amy L.,; La Caze, Marguerite,; Nannicelli, Ted,; O’Regan, Tom,; Saethre-McGuirk, Ellen Marie,; Sinnerbrink, Robert,; Tavinor, Grant,
• HerausgeberIn: La Caze, Marguerite,; Nannicelli, Ted,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 20 B/W illustrations

Shows how aesthetic, ethical, and political questions intersect in a range of art forms as found in traditional mediaAddresses key aesthetic, ethical, and political questions in visual mediaExamines contemporary films, television, photography, painting and new visual media such as videogames, Facebook, and interactive documentariesOffers an international mix of emerging and senior authors with interdisciplinary expertiseThis book investigates the interrelations between aesthetics, ethics and politics in a variety of visual media forms, ranging across art installations, film and television, interactive documentaries, painting, photography, social media and videogames. An international mix of emerging and established authors, with interdisciplinary expertise, explores how different ethical questions, political implications and aesthetic pleasures arise and shape one another in distinct visual media.Investigating themes such as the use of cinema as a medium for ethical and political thought, how documentary subjects both conceal and reveal truth, the new ethical challenges arising from interactive media and the role of images in responding to political events and trauma, this is a groundbreaking work about the interrelations of aesthetic, ethical and political values in visual media.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. AESTHETICS -- 1. REPAIR AND THE IRREPARABLE IN CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL ART -- 2. CIRCULATING BODIES: RETELLING THE TRAUMA OF THE ALGERIAN WAR THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART -- 3. AN i FOR AN EYE: THE COLLECTIVE SHAPING OF EXPERIENCE IN THE AGE OF MACHINE-MEDIATED ART -- PART TWO. ETHICS -- 4. THE ETHICS OF FILMMAKING: HOW THE GENETIC HISTORY OF WORKS AFFECTS THEIR VALUE -- 5. THE LOOK OF SILENCE AND THE ETHICS OF ATONEMENT -- 6. TRUTH, PERFORMANCE AND THE CLOSE-UP: PARADOXICAL CANDOUR IN ERROL MORRIS’S ‘INTERROTRON’ INTERVIEWS -- 7. MINDHUNTER: THE POSSIBILITY OF KNOWING EVIL -- PART THREE POLITICS -- 8. INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY, NARRATIVE SCEPTICISM AND THE VALUES OF DOCUMENTARY FILM -- 9. WON’T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN! ON THE MORALISATION OF VIDEO GAME VIOLENCE -- 10. RE-READING PERSONAL INFLUENCE IN AN AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA -- 11. PRINCIPLES OF EXCHANGE: FREE SPEECH IN THE ERA OF FAKE NEWS -- INDEX