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Author(s): Nicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Gunnar Iversen
ISBN(s): 9780813599625, 0813599628
Edition: 1st Edition
File Details: PDF, 4.34 MB
Year: 2019
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0813599628 
ISBN 13: 9780813599625
Author: Nicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Gunnar Iversen

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.  

Unwatchable 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Violence and Testimony
1. Theorizing the Unwatchable
Unwatchable / W. J. T. Mitchell
The Gaze from Within / Boris Groys
The Unwatchable and the Unwatchable / Stefano Harney and Fred Moten
Melting into Visibility / Alenka Zupančič
Pro Forma / Meghan Sutherland

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

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

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

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

Part II: Histories and Genres
6. The Tradition of Provocateurs
The Two Unwatchables / Asbjørn Grønstad
Real Horrorshow / Akira Mizuta Lippit
Asymmetries of Desire: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom / Mauro Resmini
Unstomachable: Irréversible and the Extreme Cinema Tradition / Mattias Frey

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

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

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

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

Part III: Spectators and Objects
11. Passionate Aversions
“Sad!”: Why I Won’t Watch Antichrist / Jonathan Rosenbaum
Transforming Nihilism / Nathan Lee
Oh, Inventiveness! Oh, Imaginativeness! Precious Cinema and Its Discontents: A Rant / Julian Hanich
The Biopic Is an Affront to the Cinema / Jeffrey Sconce

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

13. Reality Trumpism
TV Trumps / Lynne Joyrich
The Once and Future Hillary: Why I Won’t Watch a TV Miniseries about the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election / Abigail De Kosnik

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

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

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