Representing the Experience of War and Atrocity Interdisciplinary Explorations in Visual Criminology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lippens, Ronnie (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Murray, Emma (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Crime, Media and Culture
• Subjects: Mass media and crime.; War Crimes.; Peace.; Terrorism.; Political violence.; Arts.; Violence.; Crime.; Crime and the Media.; Conflict Studies.; Terrorism and Political Violence.; Violence and Crime.

This book explores how the experience of war and related atrocities tend to be visually expressed, and how such articulations and representations are circulated and consumed. Each chapter of this volume examines how an image can contribute to a richer understanding of the experience of war and atroc...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction, Ronnie Lippens
• 2. Georges Bataille's Paleolithic Cave Art and the Human Condition, Patrick Van Calster
• 3. The Aesthetics of Violence, David Polizzi
• 4. Images of Atrocity: From Victimhood to Redemption and the Implications for a (Narrative) Victimology, Sandra Walklate
• 5. Fathers and Sons: Loss and Truth in War Films from Bosnia and Sri Lanka, Dubravka Žarkov, Neloufer de Mel, and Rada Drezgic
• 6. Implicit Criminologies in the Filmic Representation of Genocide, Mark Bostock
• 7. Prometheus and the Degenerate: Arno Breker, Hans Bellmer, and Francis Bacon's Extreme Realism, Mark Featherstone
• 8. The Separate System? A Conversation on Collaborative Artistic Practice with Veterans-in-Prison, Emma Murray, Katie Davies and Emily Gee
• 9. Performing Atrocity: Staging Experiences of Violence and Conflict, Will McGowan
• 10. Competing to Control the Post-Conflict Present: Articulating Victimhood in Exhibitions in Northern Ireland, Matthew Jackson.