Killing for Culture: From Edison to ISIS: A New History of Death on Film

"I thought I was desensitized. I'm not. No hope for humanity... I feel like my quest is over." —
Comment posted online in reaction to the video, 3 Guys 1 Hammer.

Unlike images of sex, which were clandestine and screened only in private, images of death were made public from the onset of cinema. The father of the modern age, Thomas Edison, fed the appetite for this material with staged executions on film. Little over a century later the executions are real and the world is aghast at brutalit...