Killer images : documentary film, memory and the performance of violence / edited by Joram Ten Brink & Joshua Oppenheimer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ten Brink, Joram.

Oppenheimer, Joshua, 1974-

Series:

Nonfictions

Nonfictions series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Violence in motion pictures.

Violence in mass media.

Physical Description:

xi, 330 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wallflower Press, [2012]

Summary:

Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the moving image is implicated in the imaginations and actions of perpetrators and survivors of violence is all the more urgent. This edited anthology brings together a range of newly commissioned essays and interviews from the world's leading academics and documentary filmmakers, including Benedict Anderson, Errol Morris, Harun Farocki, Rithy Phan, Avi Mograbi, Brian Winston, and Michael Chanan. Contributors explore such topics as the tension between remembrance and performance, the function of moving images in the execution of political violence, and nonfiction filmmaking methods that facilitate communities of survivors to respond to, recover, and redeem a history that sought to physically and symbolically annihilate them. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Notes of contributors

Introduction / Joram ten Brink & Joshua Oppenheimer

(De)activating empathy

Publicity and indifference : media, surveillance and 'humanitarian intervention' / Thomas Keenan

Shooting with intent : framing conflict / Alisa Lebow

Immersion (2009) / Harun Farocki

Anaesthetising the image : Immersion, Huran Farcocki / Kodwo Eshun

Revisiting Rocha's 'Aesthetics of Violence' / Michael Chanan

Memory of violence : visualising trauma

Ça va de soi : the visual representation of violence representation of violence in the Holocaust documentary / Brian Winston

Screen memory in Waltz with Bashir / Garrett Stewart

Animating trauma : Waltz with Bashir, David Polonsky / Joram ten Brink

Spaces of violence : history, horror and the cinema of Kiyoshi Kurosawa / Adam Lowenstein

On historical violence and aesthetic form : Jean-Luc Godard's Allemagne 90 Neuf Zéro / Daniel Morgan

Battle for history : approaching the past in the present

Subverting dominant historical narratives : Avenge but one of my two eyes, Avi Mograbi / Joram ten Brink

Re-enactment, the History of violence and documentary film / Joran ten Brink

Interpreting Jeremy Deller's The Battle of Orgreave / Alice Correia

Remediating genocidal images into artworks : the case of the Tuol Sleng mug shots / Stéphanie Benzaquen

Screening the 1965 violence / Ariel Heryanto

Performance violence

Perpetrator's testimony and the restoration of humanity : S21, Rithy Panh / Joshua Oppenheimer

The killer's search for absolution : Z32, Avi Mograbi

Impunity / Benedict Anderson

Show of force : a cinema-séance of power and violence in Sumatra's plantation belt / Joshua Oppenheimer & Michael Uwemedimo

Misunderstanding images : standard operating procedure, Errol Morris / Joshua Oppenheimer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231163354

0231163355

OCLC:

794366433