The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Film and Media – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783031053900, 3031053907

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• ISBN-10: 3031053907
• ISBN-13: 9783031053900
• Author: Steve Choe

The chapters contained in this handbook address key issues concerning the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of violence in film and media. In addition to providing analyses of representations of violence, they also critically discuss the phenomenology of the spectator, images of atrocity in international cinema, affect and documentary, violent video games, digital infrastructures, cruelty in art cinema, and media and state violence, among many other relevant topics. The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Film and Media updates existing studies dealing with media and violence while vastly expanding the scope of the field. Representations of violence in film and media are ubiquitous but remain relatively understudied. Too often they are relegated to questions of morality, taste, or aesthetics while judgments about violence can themselves be subjected to moral judgment. Some may question whether objectionable images are worthy of serious scholarly attention at all. While investigating key examples, the chapters in this handbook consider both popular and academic discourses to understand how representations of violence are interpreted and discussed. They propose new approaches and raise novel questions for how we might critically think about this urgent issue within contemporary culture.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: The Ambivalences of Violence
2. Critical Models
3. Equality in the Face of Violence?—Diverging Paths of Moral Speculation in Violent Fiction
4. Violent Corporeality in Cinema
5. The Power of Procedure: Systemic Violence in Popular Narratives About Crime and War
6. Force, Power, and Control: Functions of Video Game Violence
7. White Material: Michael Haneke’s Ethics of Violence
8. Histories of Violence in Film and Media
9. “Man’s Greatest Catastrophe”: Violence in the Films of Cornel Wilde
10. British Film Censorship in the Twenty-First Century
11. Surgical Strikes on Screen: Narrations of Terrorism and Military Cross-Border Violence In Bollywood Cinema
12. Violence in the School Shooting Film
13. When a GIF Becomes a Weapon: The Latent Violence of Technological Standards and Media Infrastructure
14. The Aesthetics of Aggression
15. Scratching the Surface: For a Reappraisal of Violence in Contemporary French Cinema
16. The Aesthetics of Asymmetrical Warfare: Cinema’s Representation of Conflict in the Twenty-First Century
17. The Birth of Naturalist Violence in the Russian Chernukha Film
18. Violence Framed: Remediating Images of Racialized Violence in Film
19. Don’t Look Now: Ontologies of Off-Screen Violence
20. The Politics and Ethics of Brutal Media
21. White and Violent: Political Violence in Twenty-First-Century European Cinema
22. Getting Over the Fear of Murder: Video Game Violence and the Ethics of Empowerment in The Last of Us
23. Unseeable Abuse: The Impossible Act of Visualising Childhood Sexual Abuse in Digital Cultures and Technology
24. Re-staging Atrocities in a Post-historical World: Cold War Violence, Mass Amnesia, and the Dialectics of Cinematic Witnessing in Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence
25. Politics and Aesthetics of Violence in the Videos of the Islamic State
26. Affected Audiences
27. Disgust and the Image: Documentary Film and the Representation of Violent Extremists in Salafistes (2016)
28. “Does the Dog Die?”: Nonhuman Violence and Affective Viewership in American Horror
29. Sadistic Laughter: A Case for “Non-ethical” Viewing
30. Real violence: Jordan Wolfson, Virtual Reality, and the Privilege of Allegory
31. A Personal Memoir of Death in Animation

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