Edinburgh University Press
Truth in Visual Media
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About this book
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.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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FIGURES
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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INTRODUCTION
1 - PART ONE. AESTHETICS
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1. REPAIR AND THE IRREPARABLE IN CONTEMPORARY ABORIGINAL ART
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2. CIRCULATING BODIES: RETELLING THE TRAUMA OF THE ALGERIAN WAR THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY AND ART
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3. AN i FOR AN EYE: THE COLLECTIVE SHAPING OF EXPERIENCE IN THE AGE OF MACHINE-MEDIATED ART
58 - PART TWO. ETHICS
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4. THE ETHICS OF FILMMAKING: HOW THE GENETIC HISTORY OF WORKS AFFECTS THEIR VALUE
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5. THE LOOK OF SILENCE AND THE ETHICS OF ATONEMENT
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6. TRUTH, PERFORMANCE AND THE CLOSE-UP: PARADOXICAL CANDOUR IN ERROL MORRIS’S ‘INTERROTRON’ INTERVIEWS
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7. MINDHUNTER: THE POSSIBILITY OF KNOWING EVIL
146 - PART THREE POLITICS
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8. INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY, NARRATIVE SCEPTICISM AND THE VALUES OF DOCUMENTARY FILM
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9. WON’T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN! ON THE MORALISATION OF VIDEO GAME VIOLENCE
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10. RE-READING PERSONAL INFLUENCE IN AN AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
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11. PRINCIPLES OF EXCHANGE: FREE SPEECH IN THE ERA OF FAKE NEWS
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INDEX
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