Killer Images: Documentary Film, Memory, and the Performance of Violence

by Joshua Oppenheimer

Book Overview

Cinema has long shaped not only how mass violence is perceived but also how it is performed. Today, when media coverage is central to the execution of terror campaigns and news anchormen serve as embedded journalists, a critical understanding of how the moving image is implicated in the imaginations and actions of perpetrators and survivors of violence is all the more urgent. If the cinematic image and mass violence are among the defining features...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231163355
• ISBN13: 9780231163354
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"