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Unwatchable de Nicholas Baer

Unwatchable

Editat de Nicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Gunnar Iversen Contribuţii de Erika Balsom, Kenneth Berger, Susie Bright, Alex Bush, Alec Butler, Noël Carroll, Noel Carroll, Mel Chen, Jonathan Crary, Abigail De Kosnik, Samuel England, Mattias Frey, Peter Geimer, Michael Boyce Gillespie, Asbjørn Grønstad, Boris Groys, Frances Guerin, Jack Halberstam, Barbara Hammer, Julian Hanich, Stefano Harney, J. Hoberman, Lynne Joyrich, Alexandra Juhasz, E. Ann Kaplan, Katariina Kyrölä, Nathan Lee, Akira Lippit, Jennifer Malkowski, Professor W.J.T. Mitchell, Brandy Monk-Payton, Fred Moten, Professor Bill Nichols, Jan Olsson, Danielle Peers, Raul Perez, Mauro Resmini, Professor B. Ruby Rich, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Rebecca Schneider, Jeffrey Sconce, Jared Sexton, Philipp Stiasny, Meghan Sutherland, Bennet Togler, Leshu Torchin, Alok Vaid-Menon, Christophe Wall-Romana, Meir Wigoder, Emily Wills, Federico Windhausen, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Genevieve Yue, Alenka Zupancic, Poulomi Saha, Vivian Sobchack
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 ian 2019 – vârsta ani

În Unwatchable, găsim o colecție impresionantă de peste 50 de eseuri originale care analizează raportul complex dintre privitor și imaginile care forțează limitele tolerabilității. Volumul este construit pe un raport echilibrat între rigoarea analizei textuale și referința constantă la cultura vizuală contemporană, investigând ce anume transformă o imagine în ceva „de neprivit” — fie că este vorba de considerente etice, politice sau senzoriale.

Structura cărții ne ghidează progresiv de la teoretizarea conceptului de „unwatchable” către studii de caz viscerale. Reținem secțiunile dedicate spectacolelor distrugerii și regimurilor vizuale ale violenței rasiale, unde autori precum W. J. T. Mitchell sau Boris Groys descompun mecanismele prin care privirea noastră este capturată sau respinsă. Experiența lecturii este una provocatoare, tonul variind de la cel academic la cel critic-activist, reflectând diversitatea platformelor pe care aceste imagini circulă, de la ecranele televizoarelor la rețelele de socializare.

Această lucrare continuă preocupările editorului Nicholas Baer pentru impactul mediatic, vizibile și în Technics, dar aici accentul se mută de pe infrastructura tehnologică pe reacția afectivă și morală a spectatorului. Complementar lui Ethics and Images of Pain, care se concentrează pe suferință ca sursă de reflecție etică, Unwatchable oferă o perspectivă mai largă, incluzând nu doar durerea, ci și plictiseala, obscenitatea sau inaccesibilitatea ca forme ale insuportabilului vizual. De asemenea, spre deosebire de On Not Looking, care explorează absența privirii, acest volum analizează tocmai tensiunea de a privi ceea ce ne provoacă repulsie.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780813599588
ISBN-10: 081359958X
Pagini: 412
Ilustrații: 51 images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor din domeniul studiilor media, dar și celor pasionați de sociologie și artă care doresc să înțeleagă cum ne modelează consumul de imagini violente sau perturbatoare. Cititorul câștigă un aparat critic esențial pentru a naviga într-o cultură vizuală saturată de conținut dificil, învățând să descifreze nu doar ce vede, ci și motivele pentru care uneori simte nevoia să întoarcă privirea.

Despre autor

Nicholas Baer este un cercetător și editor recunoscut pentru contribuțiile sale în teoria media și istoria cinematografului. Co-editor al volumului Technics, Baer se concentrează pe intersecția dintre filozofie și cultura vizuală. În Unwatchable, el colaborează cu Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak și Gunnar Iversen pentru a coordona o listă de contributori de elită, de la teoreticieni precum Fred Moten la critici de film precum Jonathan Rosenbaum, reușind să creeze o platformă de dialog între diverse discipline academice și practici artistice contemporane.

Descriere scurtă

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.  

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

Contents

Introduction: Envisioning the Unwatchable

Part I: Violence and Testimony

Theorizing the Unwatchable
1. W. J. T. Mitchell, Unwatchable
2. Boris Groys, The Gaze from Within
3. Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Unwatchable and the Unwatchable
4. Alenka Zupančič, Melting Into Visibility
5. Meghan Sutherland, Pro Forma

Spectacles of Destruction
6. Jonathan Crary, Terminal Radiance
7. Poulomi Saha, Unwatched/Unmanned: Drone Strikes and the Aesthetics of the Unseen
8. Alex Bush, Breakaway
9. Meir Wigoder, The Watchability of the Unwatchable: Television Disaster Coverage

Bearing Witness
10. Peter Geimer, The Incommensurable
11. Leshu Torchin, Not Seeing is Believing: The Unwatchable in Advocacy
12. Frances Guerin, Even If She Had Been a Criminal: A Past Unwatched
13. Federico Windhausen, Deframing Evidence: A Transmission from Los ingrávidos
14. Emily Regan Wills, Alan Kurdi’s Body on the Shore

Visual Regimes of Racial Violence
15. Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Held Helpless in the Breach: On American History X
16. Jared Sexton, The Flash of History: On the Unwatchable in Get Out
17. Alexandra Juhasz, Nothing is Unwatchable for All
18. Michael Boyce Gillespie, Empathy. Complicity.

Spectacularization and Resistance
19. Alok Vaid-Menon, Entertainment Value
20. Alec Butler, Holocausts, Hallowe’en, and Headdresses
21. Danielle Peers, Unwitnessable: Outrageous Ableist Impersonations and Unwitnessed Everyday Violence

Part II:  Histories and Genres

The Tradition of Provocateurs
22. Asbjørn Grønstad, The Two Unwatchables
23. Akira Lippit, Real Horrorshow
24. Mauro Resmini, Asymmetries of Desire: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
25. Mattias Frey, Unstomachable: Irréversible and the Extreme Cinema Tradition

Enduring the Avant-Garde
26. Christophe Wall-Romana, Unwatchability by Choice: Isou’s Venom and Eternity
27. Kenneth Berger, The Refusal of Spectacle: Debord’s Howls for Sade
28. J. Hoberman, Warhol’s Empire: Unwatched and Unwatchable
29. Noël Carroll, Warhol's Empire
30. Erika Balsom, Watching Paint Dry

Visceral Responses to Horror
31. Vivian Sobchack, “Peekaboo”: Thoughts on (Maybe Not) Seeing Two Horror Films
32. B. Ruby Rich, Why I Cannot Watch
33. Genevieve Yue, Apotropes

Pornography and the Question of Pleasure
34. Susie Bright, I Am Curious (Butterball)
35. Bill Nichols, At the Threshold to the Void

Archives and the Disintegrating Image
36. Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Restoring Blood Money
37. Jan Olsson, Turning Garbo Watchable: From Swedish Bread Bun to Hollywood Goddess
38. Philipp Stiasny and Bennet Togler, Twilight of the Dead

Part III: Spectators and Objects

Passionate Aversions
39. Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Sad!”: Why I Won’t Watch Antichrist
40. Nathan Lee, Transforming Nihilism
41. Julian Hanich, Oh, Inventiveness! Oh, Imaginativeness! Precious Cinema and Its Discontents: A Rant
42. Jeffrey Sconce, The Biopic is an Affront to the Cinema

Tedious Whiteness
43. Jack Halberstam, White Men Behaving Sadly
44. Brandy Monk-Payton, “You is Kind, You is Smart, You is Important” or, Why I Can't Watch The Help
45. Mel Y. Chen, Two Tables and a Ladder: WCGW?

Reality Trumpism
46. Lynne Joyrich, TV Trumps
47. Abigail De Kosnik, The Once and Future Hillary: Why I Won't Watch Any Fictionalizations of the 2016 Election

Pedagogy and Campus Politics
48. Raúl Pérez, Why We Can’t Take a Joke
49. Jennifer Malkowski, The Bridge and Unteachable Films
50. Katariina Kyrölä, Squirming in the Classroom: Fat Girl and the Ethical Value of Extreme Discomfort

The Triggered Spectator
51. E. Ann Kaplan, What is an “Unwatchable” Film? (With Reference to Amour and Still Alice)
52. Barbara Hammer, Watch at Your Own Peril
53. Samuel England, Sects, Fries, and Videotape
54. Rebecca Schneider, Off Watch

Acknowledgments
Filmography
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

Recenzii

"By posing a seemingly modest question—what visual experiences in our media-saturated world are 'unwatchable?'—the editors of this remarkable volume have elicited an astonishing range of intensely felt responses. They reveal the most potent anxieties of our troubled times, forcing us to attend to what we cannot bear to witness directly."

"This thoughtfully curated anthology of short essays comes at a classical aesthetic problem with a fresh sense of historical urgency and from a number of truly new, often surprising directions. Radically extending the conceptual reach of its title, Unwatchable offers readers real traction on core questions in media and cultural studies surrounding taste, identity, and embodied experience as it navigates deftly across the dizzying landscape of contemporary spectatorship."

"A compelling foray into the bio- and necropolitics of spectacle, suffering, and violence. The short pieces in this weighty collection linger uncomfortably, highlighting the incommensurability of the unwatchable and the unthinkable."

"While many edited anthologies boast interdisciplinarity and intermediality, Unwatchable stands out for the astounding reach of the media and discourses marshalled under its theme. Its implications are manifold, evidence that 'unwatchable' is more than just an aesthetic category. Unwatchable’s editors suggest that the currently unobservable, whether expressly repudiated or involuntarily rendered invisible, will surely linger and haunt the public imagination for years—if not generations—to come." 



"A substantial collection of essays, bristling with anxiety about the social impact of the kind of mediations broadcasting the news requires of us daily."

"The tone of the writing is refreshing—sometimes experimental and at others painfully reflective. Readers embark on deeply personal and highly politicised journeys with contributors, recalling harrowing moments from cinematic, televisual, world, and personal history."

"Unwatchable is a powerful, potent collection because of its mission to crack our fingers apart just a little bit wider to see more of what we're averse to. Look for this book."

"The anthology is an impressive collection of essays written by over fifty scholars and artists working on issues in film and media studies from a variety of disciplines and professional (as well as personal) perspectives, each of whom attempts to struggle with sharing what it means for something to be 'unwatchable' for them. Researchers on related issues in film, media, gender, politics, and philosophy broadly construed will find much that is both new and old to consider anew and to reconsider, while those new to such debates may find another space within which to theorize."

"This anthology does nothing less than challenge us to grapple with the criteria and ramifications of the unwatchable. It does not offer any one-dimensional or easily digestible answers to the complex questions raised in individual contributions. Though its richness and variety, it instead makes possible a deeper understanding of the concept of the unwatchable, which has become a crucial category across global media and politics."

"A socially urgent and intellectually galvanizing book. Unwatchable opens up a vital critical space for sharing the burden of navigating the difficult, often painful terrain of the twenty-first century visual regime. Highly readable, and productively challenging, it is a book that will inform our discussions of the politics of watching (and not watching) for a long time to come."

"This is a volume edited by the discipline’s top scholars and featuring some of our most brilliant theorists. Film scholars will doubtless be citing the essays in this volume for a long time to come. I know I will. What is likely to impress students, and what this collection gifts so gorgeously, is its demonstration of the way theory and film alike can crack open the most pressing issues of our day and offer moral support and ethical guidance for thinking through a life lived as citizen and spectator."

"This book will find its greatest connections in studies of both the ethics and aesthetics of visual culture at its fringes."

"Carefully edited to allow multiple voices and experiences to be in dialogue and sometimes challenge each other, Unwatchable shows how productive the unwatchable is as a moral and aesthetic category and also reveals that when it comes to these images, our watch has just begun."