Truth in visual media : aesthetics, ethics and politics /

Shows how aesthetic, ethical, and political questions intersect in a range of art forms as found in traditional media.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: La Caze, Marguerite (Editor), Nannicelli, Ted (Editor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctv27qzrtv
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli
  • Part one. Aesthetics
  • 1. Repair and the irreparable in contemporary Aboriginal Art / Susan Best
  • 2. Circulating bodies : retelling the trauma of the Algerian War through photography and art / Amy L. Hubbell
  • 3. An i for an eye : the collective shaping of experience in the Age of Machine-Mediated Art / Ellen Marie Saethre-McGuirk
  • Part two. Ethics
  • 4. The ethics of filmmaking : how the genetic history of works affects their value / Mette Hjort
  • 5. The Look of Silence and the ethics of atonement / Marguerite La Caze
  • 6. Truth, performance and the close-up : paradoxical candour in Errol Morris's 'Interrotron' interviews / Robert Sinnerbrink
  • 7. Mindhunter : the possibility of knowing evil / Damian Cox
  • Part three. Politics
  • 8. Interactive documentary, narrative scepticism and the values of documentary film / Ted Nannicelli
  • 9. Won't somebody please think of the children! On the moralisation of video game violence / Grant Tavinor
  • 10. Re-reading personal influence in an Age of Social Media / Tom O'Regan
  • 11. Principles of exchange : free speech in the era of fake news / Kris Fallon.