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Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain presents a fresh, interdisciplinary
approach to the current research on pain from a variety of
scholarly angles within Literature, Film and Media, Game Studies,
Art History, Hispanic Studies, Memory Studies, Anthropology,
Sociology, Philosophy, and Law. Through the combination of these
perspectives, this volume goes beyond the existing structures
within and across these disciplines framing new concepts of pain in
attitude, practice, language, and ethics of response to pain.
Comprised of fourteen unique essays, Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain
maintains a common thread of analysis using a historical and
cultural lens to explore the rhetoric of pain. Considering various
methodologies, this volume questions the ethical, social and
political demands pain makes upon those who feel, watch or speak
it. Arranged to move from historical cases and relevance of pain in
history towards the contemporary movement, topics include pain as a
social figure, rhetorical tool, artistic metaphor, and political
representation in jurisprudence.
Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain presents a fresh, interdisciplinary
approach to the current research on pain from a variety of
scholarly angles within Literature, Film and Media, Game Studies,
Art History, Hispanic Studies, Memory Studies, Anthropology,
Sociology, Philosophy, and Law. Through the combination of these
perspectives, this volume goes beyond the existing structures
within and across these disciplines framing new concepts of pain in
attitude, practice, language, and ethics of response to pain.
Comprised of fourteen unique essays, Beyond the Rhetoric of Pain
maintains a common thread of analysis using a historical and
cultural lens to explore the rhetoric of pain. Considering various
methodologies, this volume questions the ethical, social and
political demands pain makes upon those who feel, watch or speak
it. Arranged to move from historical cases and relevance of pain in
history towards the contemporary movement, topics include pain as a
social figure, rhetorical tool, artistic metaphor, and political
representation in jurisprudence.
In meiner Magisterarbeit untersuche ich drei zeitgenossische
Spielfilme - V for Vendetta, Munich und Children of Men - in
Hinblick auf ihre Gewalterzahlung. Ausgangspunkt der Arbeit ist die
Uberlegung, dass sich die grundsatzliche mo- lische und
kunstlerische Problematik in der Darstellung von Gewalt im Film im
Falle von 9/11 noch verscharft. Zum einen wurde das Medium Film
beschuldigt, insbesondere der spektakulare Actionfilm, die
virtuelle Vorlage fur die Terror- tacken geliefert zu haben: Die
Kollision der Flugzeuge, die brennenden und kollabierenden Twin
Towers und die Panik auf den Strassen mutete vielen an wie aus
einem Actionfilm entsprungen. Zum anderen wurde unmittelbar nach
den Angriffen eine gewisse Zuruckhaltung und Rucksicht bezuglich
der grafischen Darstellung eines traumatischen Ereignisses wie 9/11
erwartet. Die Fiktion selbst schien Realitat geworden zu sein, und
die traumatische Realitat war fur den Moment in ihrer Ganze nicht
zu verarbeiten oder zu begreifen. Sowohl die g- fisch-realistische
Gewaltdarstellung als auch das Spektakel gehoren jedoch zum festen
Repertoire traditioneller Erzahltechnik des Terrorismus- und
Actionfilms. Meine Arbeit behandelt die Antworten auf diese
kunstlerischen Herausf- derungen in drei Actionfilmen, die wenige
Jahre nach 9/11 erschienen. Diese Filme erzahlen Geschichten uber
Terrorismus im Actionfilm-Format und erst- len aktuelle politische
Bezuge. Die Gewalterzahlung jedes Filmes wird in jeweils drei
Abschnitten untersucht, in Hinblick auf Inhalt, filmische
Darstellungs- thoden und Referenzen auf politische Entwicklungen
bzw. auf die eingangs sk- zierte Problematik. Der erste Abschnitt
behandelt Rechtfertigungsmuster von Gewalt und die
Gegenuberstellung von Terrorismus mit anderen Formen der Gewalt."
Examines the ways in which moving images can help us better
understand factual political torture Examines role of images and
film in (mis)understanding of torture Offers synergised knowledge
through comparative angle, exploring differences and continuities
of torture cases which were documented to vastly different extents
Includes key popular movies, independent films as well as serial
television Combines serious film analysis with ethical-political
questions and historically and theoretically informed research
Expands on the latest developments of comparative media
scholarship, and integrates the nostalgic, material and affective
"turn." Academic work on the subject of torture tends to mirror
public debates on its presumed utility, to focus on its
historically 'correct' representation or on profilmic structures of
identification. This book moves beyond these ideologically charged
questions to explore how contemporary films have responded to a
growing popular distrust in visual evidence when referencing
factual cases of torture. Two cases studies - the United States
around 2004 and Chile from 1973 until the end of the dictatorship -
provide either an abundance or lack of such visual evidence.
Drawing on films and television series such as Zero Dark Thirty
(2012), NO (2012), Homeland (2011-) and Los 80 (2008-14), amongst
many others, this book analyses the visible components of torture
but also its invisibilities. By casting a wider net on the
definition of torture, the author promotes a radical, theoretical
reframing of our concept of torture and suggests that audiovisual
products can help broaden our comprehension of torture as an event
which includes collective and emotional dimensions and long-term
social effects.
Examines the ways in which moving images can help us better
understand factual political torture Examines role of images and
film in (mis)understanding of torture Offers synergised knowledge
through comparative angle, exploring differences and continuities
of torture cases which were documented to vastly different extents
Includes key popular movies, independent films as well as serial
television Combines serious film analysis with ethical-political
questions and historically and theoretically informed research
Expands on the latest developments of comparative media
scholarship, and integrates the nostalgic, material and affective
turn" Academic work on the subject of torture tends to mirror
public debates on its presumed utility
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