Unwatchable

Author : Nicholas Baer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813599601
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unwatchable written by Nicholas Baer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as unsuitable for viewing. Yet what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable”: disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inaccessible? With over 50 original essays by leading scholars, artists, critics, and curators, this is the first book to trace the “unwatchable” across our contemporary media environment, in which viewers encounter difficult content on various screens and platforms. Appealing to a broad academic and general readership, the volume offers multidisciplinary approaches to the vast array of troubling images that circulate in global visual culture.

Author : Nicholas Baer
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 081359958X
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unwatchable written by Nicholas Baer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory-affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to incendiary artworks that provoke mass boycotts, many of the images in our media culture strike as beyond the pale of consumption. Yet what does it mean to proclaim a media object "unwatchable": disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inaccessible? Appealing to a broad academic and general readership, Unwatchable offers multidisciplinary approaches to the vast array of troubling images that circulate in our global visual culture, from cinema, television, and video games through museums and classrooms to laptops, smart phones, and social media platforms. This anthology assembles 60 original essays by scholars, theorists, critics, archivists, curators, artists, and filmmakers who offer their own responses to the broadly suggestive question: What do you find unwatchable? The diverse answers include iconoclastic artworks that have been hidden from view, dystopian images from the political sphere, horror movies, TV advertisements, classic films, and recent award-winners"--

Author : A. Grønstad
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230355854
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Screening the Unwatchable written by A. Grønstad and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Caché, Asbjørn Grønstad revives the debate about the role of negation and aesthetics, and reframes the concept of spectatorship in ethical terms.

Author : D. A. Miller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231551398
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second Time Around written by D. A. Miller and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art houses and cinema clubs of his youth are gone, but the films that D. A. Miller discovered there in the 1960s and ’70s are now at his fingertips. With DVDs and streaming media, technology has turned the old cinematheque’s theatrical offerings into private viewings that anyone can repeat, pause, slow, and otherwise manipulate at will. In Second Time Around, Miller seizes this opportunity; across thirteen essays, he watches digitally restored films by directors from Mizoguchi to Pasolini and from Hitchcock to Honda, looking to find not only what he first saw in them but also what he was then kept from seeing by quick camerawork, normal projection speed, missing frames, or simple censorship. At last he has an unobstructed view of the gay leather scene in Cruising, the expurgated special effects in The H-Man, and the alternative ending to Vertigo. Now he can pursue the finer details of Chabrol’s debt to Hitchcock, Visconti’s mystificatory Marxism, or the unemotive emotion in Godard. Yet this recaptured past is strangely disturbing; the films and the author have changed in too many ways for their reunion to be like old times. The closeness of Miller’s attention clarifies the painful contradictions of youth and decline, damaged prints and flawless restorations.

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1192 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federal Communications Commission Reports written by United States. Federal Communications Commission and published by . This book was released on 1968-03-29 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1146 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Federal Communications Commission Reports. V. 1-45, 1934/35-1962/64; 2d Ser., V. 1- July 17/Dec. 27, 1965-. written by United States. Federal Communications Commission and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tanya C Horeck
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074868882X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Extremism in Cinema written by Tanya C Horeck and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explosive images of sex and violence characterise what has come to be known as the 'new extremism' in contemporary European cinema. This collection of essays is devoted to the new extremism in contemporary European cinema and will critically interrogate t

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1134 pages
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Download or read book Federal Communications Commission Reports written by United States. Federal Communications Commission and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Waters
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Waters written by John Waters and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known as a highly entertaining and controversial filmmaker, John Waters is also an artist and photographer. "John Waters: Change of Life" is a collection of his still photographic works made over the past decade. Includes essays by guest authors and an interview with Waters.

Author : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 1524748846
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghost Variations written by Kevin Brockmeier and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghost stories tap into our most primal emotions as they encourage us to confront the timeless question: What comes after death? Here, in tales that are by turn scary, funny, philosophic, and touching, you’ll find that question sharpened, split, reconsidered—and met with a multitude of answers. A spirit who is fated to spend eternity reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, ghostly trees that haunt the occupant of a wooden house, specters that snatch anyone who steps into the shadows, and parakeets that serve as mouthpieces for the dead: these are just a few of the characters in this extraordinary compendium of one hundred ghost stories. Kevin Brockmeier’s fiction has always explored the space between the fantastical and the everyday with profundity and poignancy. As in his previous books, The Ghost Variations discovers new ways of looking at who we are and what matters to us, exploring how mysterious, sad, strange, and comical it is to be alive—or, as it happens, not to be.