Cinema of the Dark Side: Atrocity and the Ethics of Film Spectatorship

by ShohiniChaudhuri (Author)

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  Paperback
  2014

  $37.69

  Explores how contemporary cinema treats state-sponsored atrocity, evoking multiple landscapes of state terror. Investigating the ethical potential of cinematic atrocity images, this book argues that while films help to create and confirm normative perceptions about atrocities, they can also disrupt those perceptions and build alternatives.