Creating the witness [electronic resource] : documenting genocide on film, video, and the Internet / Leshu Torchin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Torchin, Leshu.

Series:

Visible evidence ; v. 26.

Visible evidence ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Documentary films--History and criticism.

Documentary films.

Genocide in motion pictures.

Genocide in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000 lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is Dying learn this sobering fact and more as they work to ensure the survival of a virtual refugee camp. The video game not only puts players in the position of a struggling refugee, it shows them how they can take action in the real world.Creating the Witness examines the role of film and the Internet in creating virtual witnesses to genocide over the last one hundred years. The book asks, how do visual media work to produce witnesses-au

Contents:

Introduction: screen media and witnessing publics

To acquaint America with ravished Armenia

Witness for the prosecution: films at Nuremberg

Reflections on the world stage: imagining fields of witnessing for Rwanda and the Balkans

The work of WITNESS: negotiating the challenges of video advocacy

iWitnesses and citizentube: focus on Darfur

Conclusion: testimonial encounters and tempering the celebratory narrative.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4881-X

0-8166-8192-9

OCLC:

829461156