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9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (246 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253015631
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: 9/11 and the Visual Culture of DisasterDDC classification:
  • 973.931
LOC classification:
  • HV6432.7 -- .S78 2014eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Spectacle and Its Other -- 1 From Latent to Live: Disaster Photography after the Digital Turn -- 2 Origins of Affect: The Falling Body and Other Symptoms of Cinema -- 3 Remembering-Images: Empty Cities, Machinic Vision, and the Post-9/11 Imaginary -- 4 Lights, Camera, Iconoclasm: How Do Monuments Die and Live to Tell about It? -- 5 The Failure of the Failure of Images: The Crisis of the Unrepresentable from the Graphic Novel to the 9/11 Memorial -- Conclusion: Disaster(s) without Content -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: By examining configurations of invisibility and erasure across the media of photography, film, monuments, graphic novels, and digital representation, Stubblefield interprets the post-9/11 presence of absence as the reaffirmation of national identity that implicitly laid the groundwork for the impending invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Spectacle and Its Other -- 1 From Latent to Live: Disaster Photography after the Digital Turn -- 2 Origins of Affect: The Falling Body and Other Symptoms of Cinema -- 3 Remembering-Images: Empty Cities, Machinic Vision, and the Post-9/11 Imaginary -- 4 Lights, Camera, Iconoclasm: How Do Monuments Die and Live to Tell about It? -- 5 The Failure of the Failure of Images: The Crisis of the Unrepresentable from the Graphic Novel to the 9/11 Memorial -- Conclusion: Disaster(s) without Content -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

By examining configurations of invisibility and erasure across the media of photography, film, monuments, graphic novels, and digital representation, Stubblefield interprets the post-9/11 presence of absence as the reaffirmation of national identity that implicitly laid the groundwork for the impending invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

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