Title Cinema of the dark side : atrocity and the ethics of film spectatorship / Shohini Chaudhuri.

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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014]

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Description	1 online resource (v, 202 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-196) and index.
Contents	Documenting the dark side : fictional and documentary treatments of torture and the 'war on terror' -- History lessons : what audiences (could) learn about genocide from historical drama -- The art of disappearance : remembering political violence in Argentina and Chile -- Uninvited visitors : immigration, detention and deportation in science fiction -- Architectures of enmity : the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a cinematic lens.
Note	Print version record.
Access	Owing to Legal Deposit regulations this resource may only be accessed from within National Library of Scotland. For more information contact enquiries@nls.uk. StEdNL
Summary	A few days after 9/11, US Vice-President Dick Cheney invoked the need for the USA to work 'the dark side' in its global 'War on Terror'. This book explores how contemporary cinema treats state-sponsored atrocity, evoking multiple landscapes of state terror. It investigates the ethical potential of cinematic atrocity images, arguing that while films help to create and confirm normative perceptions about atrocities, they can also disrupt those perceptions and build different ones. The book provides readers with fresh insights into how we respond to atrocity images and the ethical issues at stake.
Subject	Human rights in motion pictures.
	Violence in motion pictures.
	Political violence in motion pictures.
	Motion picture audiences -- Moral and ethical aspects.
	PERFORMING ARTS -- Film& Video -- History & Criticism.
	PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
	Human rights in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01903533
	Motion picture audiences. (OCoLC)fst01027116
	Motion pictures -- Moral and ethical aspects. (OCoLC)fst01027344
	Political violence in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01904303
	Violence in motion pictures. (OCoLC)fst01167293
Other Form:	Print version: Chaudhuri, Shohini. Cinema of the dark side. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2014] 9780748642632 (DLC) 2015376267 (OCoLC)899734012
ISBN	9780748694617 (electronic bk.)
	0748694617 (electronic bk.)
	9781474408554 (electronic bk.)
	1474408559 (electronic bk.)

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