Screen LibraryRegarding the pain of others
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Picador,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2004, c2003. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 1st Picador ed. |
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| Carrier Form: | 131 p.: ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0312422199 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D068 |
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D068-05 C913.9 |
| Call Number: | D068-05/S699 |
| Contents: | Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the Amer |