Unwatchable

Author : Nicholas Baer,Maggie Hennefeld,Laura Horak,Gunnar Iversen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780813599601

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Unwatchable by Nicholas Baer,Maggie Hennefeld,Laura Horak,Gunnar Iversen Pdf

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,Maggie Hennefeld,Laura Horak,Gunnar Iversen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780813599588

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Unwatchable by Nicholas Baer,Maggie Hennefeld,Laura Horak,Gunnar Iversen Pdf

"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
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230355859

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Screening the Unwatchable by A. Grønstad Pdf

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
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231551397

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Second Time Around by D. A. Miller Pdf

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 : Unknown
Page : 1248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Telecommunication
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063111046

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Federal Communications Commission Reports by United States. Federal Communications Commission Pdf

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1146 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Radio
ISBN : UOM:39015038802693

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Federal Communications Commission Reports. V. 1-45, 1934/35-1962/64; 2d Ser., V. 1- July 17/Dec. 27, 1965-. by United States. Federal Communications Commission Pdf

Author : Tanya C Horeck
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780748688821

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New Extremism in Cinema by Tanya C Horeck Pdf

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 : Kevin Brockmeier
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524748845

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The Ghost Variations by Kevin Brockmeier Pdf

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.

Author : Petter Ogland
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387807383

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Space 1999 and Science Fiction Prototyping by Petter Ogland Pdf

With the first online discussions of SPACE 1999 starting in January 1993, this book celebrates the 25th anniversary of Online Alpha. It is edited and told from the perspective of trying to present different types of discussions over the years by focusing on humour, insight, surprise and shared community. There is also a focus on how the discussions have changed and how they continue to change. The book is written on an idealistic basis. It is sold at the lowest price the publisher was willing to accept. A free e-book version can be downloaded at www.lulu.com.

Author : Jonathan Elmer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226833491

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In Poe's Wake by Jonathan Elmer Pdf

"Edgar Allan Poe is one of American culture's most iconic figures, inspiring countless derivations beyond the literary realm, from commercial illustration and kitch to art installations and video games. Why has Poe been so hugely influential in media other than his own? What do filmmakers, composers, and other artists find in Poe that suits their purposes so often and so variously? Poe's works are violent and brooding, memorable both for certain grisly images and for certain prevailing moods-dread, creepiness, mournfulness. They are, in other words, distinctly graphic and richly atmospheric. Jonathan Elmer locates the source of Poe's fascination for artists in these two vernacular aesthetic categories-the graphic and the atmospheric-and how well they describe our experience of the multi-media world. Elmer uses Poe to explore these two terms and track some deep patterns in their use, not through theoretical labor but through close encounters with a wide sampling of aesthetic objects that avail themselves of Poe's work. Poe, we learn, has come to exemplify a modern method of aesthetic production. It is as if he left his box of tools lying around for others to pick up and play with. The bundle of Poe traits-his thematic emphasis on extreme sensation, his flexible sense of form, his experimental and modular method, his iconic personal profile-amount to what could be called a Poe "brand," one as likely to be found in music videos or comics as in novels and stories. Ranging from René Magritte and Claude Debussy to Lou Reed, Roger Corman, and Spongebob Squarepants, Elmer shows how the Poe brand opens trunk lines to aesthetic experiences fundamental to a multi-media world"--

Author : Dominique Gendrin,Catherine Dessinges,Shearon Roberts
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498545617

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HBO's Treme and Post-Katrina Catharsis by Dominique Gendrin,Catherine Dessinges,Shearon Roberts Pdf

This book argues that fictional television can educate audiences on complex communities and issues long after it has faded from the news cycle. Treme, to date, remains one of the most notable experiments of how post-Katrina New Orleans communities struggle to hold on to their cultural and historical essence. The David Simon–HBO–great American city television formula continues to captivate audiences worldwide.

Author : Rikke Schubart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501336720

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Mastering Fear by Rikke Schubart Pdf

Mastering Fear analyzes horror as play and examines what functions horror has and why it is adaptive and beneficial for audiences. It takes a biocultural approach, and focusing on emotions, gender, and play, it argues we play with fiction horror. In horror we engage not only with the negative emotions of fear and disgust, but with a wide range of emotions, both positive and negative. The book lays out a new theory of horror and analyzes female protagonists in contemporary horror from child to teen, adult, middle age, and old age. Since the turn of the millennium, we have seen a new generation of female protagonists in horror. There are feisty teens in The Vampire Diaries (2009–2017), troubled mothers in The Babadook (2014), and struggling women in the New French extremity with Martyrs (2008) and Inside (2007). At the fuzzy edges of the genre are dramas like Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Black Swan (2010), and middle-age women are now protagonists with Carol in The Walking Dead (2010–) and Jessica Lange's characters in American Horror Story (2011–). Horror is not just for men, but also for women, and not just for the young, but for audiences of all ages.

Author : Emily L. Newman,Emily Witsell
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476678108

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The Hallmark Channel by Emily L. Newman,Emily Witsell Pdf

Originally known as a brand for greeting cards, Hallmark has seen a surge in popularity since the early 2010s for its made-for-TV movies and television channels: the Hallmark Channel and its spinoffs, Hallmark Movie Channel (now Hallmark Movies & Mysteries) and Hallmark Drama. Hallmark's brand of comforting, often sentimental content includes standalone movies, period and contemporary television series, and mystery film series that center on strong, intuitive female leads. By creating reliable and consistent content, Hallmark offers people a calming retreat from the real world. This collection of new essays strives to fill the void in academic attention surrounding Hallmark. From the plethora of Christmas movies that are released each year to the successful faith-based scripted programming and popular cozy mysteries that air every week, there is a wealth of material to be explored. Specifically, this book explores the network's problematic relationship with race, the dominance of Christianity and heteronormativity, the significance placed on nostalgia, and the hiring and re-hiring of a group of women who thrived as child stars.

Author : Ning Xu
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-17
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783832544041

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A Comparative Study of Female-Themed Art Films from China and Germany by Ning Xu Pdf

This book explores female-themed art films from China and Germany and seeks to illustrate how the cultural difference between the ways of representing women and narrating women's themes is shown in both countries' films, by means of analyzing two film elements: mise-en-scène and cinematography. This book analyzes female-themed art films in five topics: Marriage and Love, Birth and Motherhood, Professional Women and Housewives, Death and Despair, and Dreams and Destiny.

Author : United States. Federal Communications Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B772611

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Federal Communications Commission reports by United States. Federal Communications Commission Pdf