Unwatchable by Baer, Nicholas

Unwatchable (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813599588)

Vendor: Nicholas Baer
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Format: Paperback
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Unwatchable by Baer, Nicholas

Unwatchable

$36.95
Unwatchable by Baer, Nicholas

Unwatchable

$36.95
Format: Paperback
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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
ISBN-10: 081359958X
ISBN-13: 9780813599588
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/14/2019
Pages: 412
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 1.10d
By Nicholas Baer
By Nicholas Baer
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NICHOLAS BAER is a collegiate assistant professor in the humanities and Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago in Illinois. He is the coeditor of the award-winning The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907-1933.

MAGGIE HENNEFELD is an assistant professor of cultural studies and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author of Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes.

LAURA HORAK is an associate professor of film studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of the award-winning Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934 (Rutgers University Press).

GUNNAR IVERSEN is a professor of film studies at Carleton University. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than twenty books.

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