Truth in Visual Media
Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics
Published on 17. July 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-4744-7447-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book investigates the interrelations between aesthetics, ethics and politics in a variety of visual media forms, ranging across art installations, film and television, interactive documentaries, painting, photography, social media and videogames. An international mix of emerging and established authors, with interdisciplinary expertise, explores how different ethical questions, political implications and aesthetic pleasures arise and shape one another in distinct visual media.
Investigating themes such as the use of cinema as a medium for ethical and political thought, how documentary subjects both conceal and reveal truth, the new ethical challenges arising from interactive media and the role of images in responding to political events and trauma, this is a groundbreaking work about the interrelations of aesthetic, ethical and political values in visual media.
Investigating themes such as the use of cinema as a medium for ethical and political thought, how documentary subjects both conceal and reveal truth, the new ethical challenges arising from interactive media and the role of images in responding to political events and trauma, this is a groundbreaking work about the interrelations of aesthetic, ethical and political values in visual media.
Reviews / Votes
This is a welcome contribution to the growing field of research on the relationships between aesthetics, ethics and politics in visual media. The book offers thought-provoking and well-informed essays from authors with diverse disciplinary backgrounds, addressing a wide range of socially relevant issues. -- Jens Eder, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLFMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
20 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
376 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-7447-4 (9781474474474)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Dr Marguerite La Caze is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Queensland. Dr Ted Nannicelli is Lecturer in the School of Communication and the Arts, University of Queensland
Content
Introduction - Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli
Part I: 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 Saethre-McGuirk
Part II: 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' "Interrotron" Interviews - Robert Sinnerbrink
7. Mindhunter: The Possibility of Knowing Evil - Damian Cox
Part III: 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 on Contributors
Part I: 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 Saethre-McGuirk
Part II: 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' "Interrotron" Interviews - Robert Sinnerbrink
7. Mindhunter: The Possibility of Knowing Evil - Damian Cox
Part III: 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 on Contributors