Truth in visual media : aesthetics, ethics and politics / edited by Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

La Caze, Marguerite, editor.

Nannicelli, Ted, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Truth in mass media.

Mass media--Moral and ethical aspects.

Mass media.

Art--Moral and ethical aspects.

Art.

Art--Political aspects.

Truth.

Imagery (Psychology).

Imagery (Psychology) in mass media.

Physical Description:

viii, 256 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 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

pt. 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

pt. 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1474474462

9781474474467

OCLC:

1182841420