9/11 and the visual culture of disaster / Thomas Stubblefield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stubblefield, Thomas, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Influence.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in mass media.

September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in art.

Emptiness (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The day the towers fell, indelible images of plummeting rubble, fire, and falling bodies were imprinted in the memories of people around the world. Images that were caught in the media loop after the disaster and coverage of the attack, its aftermath, and the wars that followed reflected a pervasive tendency to treat these tragic events as spectacle. Though the collapse of the World Trade Center was ""the most photographed disaster in history,"" it failed to yield a single noteworthy image of carnage. Thomas Stubblefield argues that the absence within these spectacular images is the paradox of

Contents:

Introduction: spectacle and its other

From latent to live: disaster photography after the digital turn

Origins of affect: the falling body and other symptoms of cinema

Remembering-images: empty cities, machinic vision, and the post-9/11 imaginary

Lights, camera, iconoclasm: how do monuments die and live to tell about it?

The failure of the failure of images: the crisis of the unrepresentable from the graphic

Novel to the 9/11 memorial

Conclusion: disaster(s) without content.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780253015631

0253015634

OCLC:

893732490