CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Joram ten Brink & Joshua Oppenheimer
(DE)ACTIVATING EMPATHY
Publicity and indifference: Media, Surveillance and ‘Humanitarian Intervention’
Thomas Keenan
Shooting with Intent: Framing Conflict
Alisa Lebow
Immersion
(2009)
Harun Farocki
Anaesthetising the Image:
Immersion
, Harun Farcocki
Kodwo Eshun
Revisiting Rocha’s ‘Aesthetics of Violence’
Michael Chanan
MEMORY OF VIOLENCE: VISUALISING TRAUMA
Ça va de soi
: The Visual Representation of Violence in the Holocaust Documentary
Brian Winston
Screen Memory in
Waltz with Bashir
Garrett Stewart
Animating Trauma:
Waltz with Bashir
, David Polonsky
Joram ten Brink
Spaces of Violence: History, Horror and the Cinema of Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Adam Lowenstein
On Historical Violence and Aesthetic Form: Jean-Luc Godard’s
Allemagne 90 Neuf Zéro
Daniel Morgan
BATTLE FOR HISTORY: APPROPRIATING THE PAST IN THE PRESENT
Subverting Dominant Historical Narratives:
Avenge But One of My Two Eyes
, Avi Mograbi
Joram ten Brink
Re-enactment, the History of Violence and Documentary Film
Joram ten Brink
Interpreting Jeremy Deller’s
The Battle of Orgreave
Alice Correia
Remediating Genocidal Images into Artworks: The Case of the Tuol Sleng Mug Shots
Stéphanie Benzaquen
Screening the 1965 Violence
Ariel Heryanto
PERFORMING VIOLENCE
Perpetrators’ Testimony and the Restoration of Humanity:
S21
, Rithy Panh
Joshua Oppenheimer
The Killer’s Search for Absolution:
Z32
, Avi Mograbi
Joram ten Brink
Impunity
Benedict Anderson
Show of Force: A Cinema-séance of Power and Violence in Sumatra’s Plantation Belt
Joshua Oppenheimer & Michael Uwemedimo
Misunderstanding images:
Standard Operating Procedure
, Errol Morris
Joshua Oppenheimer
index