Affective images : : post-apartheid documentary perspectives / / Marietta Kesting.

Affective Images examines both canonical and lesser-known photographs and films that address the struggle against apartheid and the new struggles that came into being in post-apartheid times. Marietta Kesting argues for a way of embodied seeing and complements this with feminist and queer film studi...

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Place / Publishing House:Albany, New York : : SUNY Press,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (306 pages) :; illustrations (black and white)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Mapping context and place
  • Affective images. Photographs of black suffering and violence
  • Affective images in the "new" South Africa
  • Burning questions. The "Burning man"
  • The afterlife of Nhamuave's photograph
  • Photographic speech acts. Migrant life and the image
  • Documentary participatory photography and politics
  • In/visibilities and reenactments. De-identification and multiplication. From documentary to fiction and back: District 9
  • Conclusion: affective images of belonging.