Truth in Visual Media: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics

by Marguerite La Caze (Editor), Ted Nannicelli (Editor)

Overview

This book investigates the interrelations between aesthetics, ethics and politics in a variety of visual media forms, ranging across art installations, film and television, interactive documentaries, painting, photography, social media and videogames. An international mix of emerging and established authors, with interdisciplinary expertise, explores how different ethical questions, political implications and aesthetic pleasures arise and shape one another in distinct visual media.
Investigating themes such as the use of cinema as a medium for ethical and political thought, how documentary subjects both conceal and reveal truth, the new ethical challenges arising from interactive media and the role of images in responding to political events and trauma, this is a groundbreaking work about the interrelations of aesthetic, ethical and political values in visual media.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474474467
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	10/05/2021
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr Marguerite La Caze is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Queensland.

Dr Ted Nannicelli is Lecturer in the School of Communication and the Arts, University of Queensland

Table of Contents

Introduction - Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli

Part I: Aesthetics

1. Repair and the Irreparable in Contemporary Aboriginal Art - Susan Best

2. Circulating Bodies: Retelling the Trauma of the Algerian War through Photography and Art - Amy L. Hubbell

3. An I for an Eye: The Collective Shaping of Experience in the Age of Machine-Mediated Art - Ellen Saethre-McGuirk

Part II: Ethics

4. The Ethics of Filmmaking: How the Genetic History of Works Affects their Value - Mette Hjort

5. The Look of Silence and the Ethics of Atonement - Marguerite La Caze

6. Truth, Performance, and the Close-Up: Paradoxical Candour in Errol Morris’ "Interrotron" Interviews - Robert Sinnerbrink

7. Mindhunter: The Possibility of Knowing Evil - Damian Cox

Part III: Politics

8. Interactive Documentary, Narrative Scepticism, and the Values of Documentary Film - Ted Nannicelli

9. Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children! On the Moralisation of Video Game Violence - Grant Tavinor

10. Re-Reading Personal Influence in an Age of Social Media - Tom O’Regan

11. Principles of Exchange: Free Speech in the era of Fake News - Kris Fallon

Notes on Contributors

Editorial Reviews

This is a welcome contribution to the growing field of research on the relationships between aesthetics, ethics and politics in visual media. The book offers thought-provoking and well-informed essays from authors with diverse disciplinary backgrounds, addressing a wide range of socially relevant issues.

Jens Eder