Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund

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Format: viii, 402 Seiten : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-0-8135-9958-8 , 978-0-8135-9959-5

Content: "We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory-affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to incendiary artworks that provoke mass boycotts, many of the images in our media culture strike as beyond the pale of consumption. Yet what does it mean to proclaim a media object "unwatchable": disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inaccessible? Appealing to a broad academic and general readership, Unwatchable offers multidisciplinary approaches to the vast array of troubling images that circulate in our global visual culture, from cinema, television, and video games through museums and classrooms to laptops, smart phones, and social media platforms. This anthology assembles 60 original essays by scholars, theorists, critics, archivists, curators, artists, and filmmakers who offer their own responses to the broadly suggestive question: What do you find unwatchable? The diverse answers include iconoclastic artworks that have been hidden from view, dystopian images from the political sphere, horror movies, TV advertisements, classic films, and recent award-winners"...

Language: English

Subjects: General works

Keywords: Bild ; Medien ; Repräsentation ; Visuelle Kommunikation ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: xvii, 358 Seiten : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-0-231-17946-1 , 978-0-231-17947-8

Series Statement: Film and culture

Note: Includes bibliographical references

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-231-54706-2

Language: English

Subjects: General works

Keywords: Stummfilm ; Slapstick ; Filmschauspielerin

URL: http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=030305068&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA

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Format: 4 DVD-Videos (875 min) : , schwarz-weiß ; , 1 Beilage , 12 cm

Series Statement: Kino Classics

Content: "This four-disc set showcase more than fourteen hours of rarely-seen silent films about feminist protest, slapstick rebellion, and suggestive gender play. These women organize labor strikes, bake (and weaponize) inedible desserts, explode out of chimneys, electrocute the police force, and assume a range of identities that gleefully dismantle traditional gender norms and sexual constraints. The films span a variety of genres including slapstick comedy, genteel farce, the trick film, cowboy melodrama, and adventure thriller. Cinema’s First Nasty Women includes 99 European and American silent films, produced from 1898 to 1926, sourced from thirteen international film archives and libraries, with all-new musical scores, video introductions, commentary tracks, and a lavishly illustrated booklet. Curated by Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, and produced for video by Bret Wood, Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a partnership of Kino Lorber, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Women Film Pioneers Project, Eye Filmmuseum, FIC-Silente, and Carleton University." [kinolorber.com]

Note: Original: Dänemark, Frankreich, Niederlande, Schweden, Goßbritannien, USA 1898-1926. - Special features: video introduction featuring series curators Laura Horak, Maggie Hennefeld, and Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi ; eleven video introductions to films and performers, featuring Liza Black, Macinam Jean Cuthand, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi, Dana Reason, Arigon Starr, Susan Stryker, and Kyla Wazana Tompkins ; QR code for .pdf of 116-page booklet with essays, interviews, photos, and detailed film notes ; audio commentaries for select films ; English, French and Spanish subtitles. - Bildformat 1.33:1 , Stummfilme mit dänischen, französischen, italienischen, niederländischen, schwedischen und englischen Zwischentiteln - Untertitel: Englisch, Französisch, Spanisch

Language: English

Subjects: General works

Keywords: Film ; DVD-Video ; Film ; Kommentar ; Film ; DVD-Video

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource

Edition: 1st ed

ISBN: 9783830994855

Series Statement: Psychotherapiewissenschaft in Forschung, Profession und Kultur 34

Content: COVID-19: der Name einer ansteckenden Erkrankung, zugleich Sigle einer aktuellen gesellschaftlichen und globalen Katastrophe. Doch waren Epidemien von Beginn der Geschichte an allgegenwärtige Bedrohungen der Menschheit. Dieser Band zeigt, wie sich von Beginn an der Film der Seuchenthematik angenommen hat. Immer ging es um die dramatischen Folgen der diversen Krankheiten, um persönliche Katastrophen, um Zusammenbrüche gesellschaftlicher Ordnung. Aber es ging auch um das Ethos des Helfens und insbesondere die Leistungen sozialer und medizinischer Versorgung. In einem Kaleidoskop interdisziplinär-historischer Analysen versammelt der Band Beiträge aus unterschiedlichen Fachrichtungen wie z.B. Filmgeschichte, Medizingeschichte, Musik- oder Literaturwissenschaft, die neue und überraschende Blickwinkel auf altbekannte Geißeln der Menschheit eröffnen. Die Sammlung führt uns ebenso plastisch wie unterhaltsam vor Augen, wie facettenreich die Filmkunst - in reziproker Beeinflussung und Spiegelung der realen gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen und Umbrüche - das Phänomen von Epidemien und Pandemien auf die Leinwand bannte und dabei unsere Kultur wie Gesellschaft nachhaltig prägte

Note: Online resource; title from title screen (viewed August 28, 2022)

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783830944850

Language: German

Subjects: Ethnology , General works

Keywords: Filmwissenschaft ; Film ; Epidemie ; Krankheit ; Kino ; Film ; Epidemie ; Pandemie ; Krankheit ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)

URL: lizenzpflichtig

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Format: 1 online resource : , 51 images

ISBN: 9780813599625

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction: Envisioning the Unwatchable / , Part I. Violence and Testimony -- , 1. Theorizing the Unwatchable -- , Unwatchable / , The Gaze from Within / , The Unwatchable and the Unwatchable / , Melting into Visibility / , Pro Forma / , 2. Spectacles of Destruction -- , Terminal Radiance / , Unwatched/Unmanned: Drone Strikes and the Aesthetics of the Unseen / , Breakaway / , The Watchability of the Unwatchable: Television Disaster Coverage / , 3. Bearing Witness -- , The Incommensurable / , Not Seeing Is Believing: The Unwatchable in Advocacy / , Even If She Had Been a Criminal: A Past Unwatched / , Deframing Evidence: A Transmission from Los ingrávidos / , Alan Kurdi’s Body on the Shore / , 4. Visual Regimes of Racial Violence -- , Held Helpless in the Breach: On American History X / , The Flash of History: On the Unwatchable in Get Out / , Nothing Is Unwatchable for All / , Empathy .Complicity / , 5. Spectacularization and Resistance -- , Entertainment Value / , Holocausts, Hallowe’en, and Headdresses / , Unwitnessable: Outrageous Ableist Impersonations and Unwitnessed Everyday Violence / , Part II. Histories and Genres -- , 6. The Tradition of Provocateurs -- , The Two Unwatchables / , Real Horrorshow / , Asymmetries of Desire: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom / , Unstomachable: Irréversible and the Extreme Cinema Tradition / , 7. Enduring the Avant-Garde -- , Unwatchability by Choice: Isou’s Venom and Eternity / , The Refusal of Spectacle: Debord’s Howls for Sade / , Warhol’s Empire: Unwatched and Unwatchable / , Warhol’s Empire / , Watching Paint Dry / , 8. Visceral Responses to Horror -- , “Peekaboo”: Thoughts on (Maybe Not) Seeing Two Horror Films / , Why I Cannot Watch / , Apotropes / , 9. Pornography and the Question of Pleasure -- , I Am Curious (Butterball) / , At the Threshold to the Void / , 10. Archives and the Disintegrating Image -- , Restoring Blood Money / , Turning Garbo Watchable: From Swedish Bread Bun to Hollywood Goddess / , Twilight of the Dead / , Part III. Spectators and Objects -- , 11. Passionate Aversions -- , “Sad!”: Why I Won’t Watch Antichrist / , Transforming Nihilism / , Oh, Inventiveness! Oh, Imaginativeness! Precious Cinema and Its Discontents: A Rant / , The Biopic Is an Affront to the Cinema / , 12. Tedious Whiteness -- , White Men Behaving Sadly / , “You Is Kind, You Is Smart, You Is Important”; or, Why I Can’t Watch The Help / , Two Tables and a Ladder: WCGW? / , 13. Reality Trumpism -- , TV Trumps / , The Once and Future Hillary: Why I Won’t Watch a TV Miniseries about the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election / , 14. Pedagogy and Campus Politics -- , Why We Can’t Take a Joke / , The Bridge and Unteachable Films / , Squirming in the Classroom: Fat Girl and the Ethical Value of Extreme Discomfort / , 15. The Triggered Spectator -- , What Is an “Unwatchable” Film? (With Reference to Amour and Still Alice) / , Watch at Your Own Peril / , Sects, Fries, and Videotape / , Off Watch / , Acknowledgments -- , Filmography -- , Bibliography -- , Notes on Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.36019/9780813599625

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780813599625

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 402 Seiten) : , Illustrationen.

ISBN: 978-0-8135-9962-5

Content: 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

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-8135-9958-8

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-8135-9959-5

Language: English

Subjects: General works

Keywords: Bild ; Medien ; Repräsentation ; Visuelle Kommunikation ; Aufsatzsammlung

DOI: 10.36019/9780813599625

URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)

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Format: 1 online resource (342 p.) : , 50 illustrations

ISBN: 9781478003410

Content: From the films of Larry Clark to the feminist comedy of Amy Schumer to the fall of Louis C. K., comedic, graphic, and violent moments of abjection have permeated twentieth- and twenty-first-century social and political discourse. The contributors to Abjection Incorporated move beyond simple critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death, illustrating how it has become a contested mode of political and cultural capital—empowering for some but oppressive for others. Escaping abjection's usual confines of psychoanalysis and aesthetic modernism, core to theories of abjection by thinkers such as Kristeva and Bataille, the contributors examine a range of media, including literature, photography, film, television, talking dolls, comics, and manga. Whether analyzing how comedic abjection can help mobilize feminist politics or how expressions of abjection inflect class, race, and gender hierarchies, the contributors demonstrate the importance of competing uses of abjection to contemporary society and politics. They emphasize abjection's role in circumscribing the boundaries of the human and how the threats abjection poses to the self and other, far from simply negative, open up possibilities for radically new politics.Contributors. Meredith Bak, Eugenie Brinkema, James Leo Cahill, Michelle Cho, Maggie Hennefeld, Rob King, Thomas Lamarre, Sylvère Lotringer, Rijuta Mehta, Mark Mulroney, Nicholas Sammond, Yiman Wang, Rebecca Wanzo

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Not It, or, The Abject Objection -- , Chapter 1. The Politics of Abjection -- , Chapter 2. Popular Abjection and Gendered Embodiment in South Korean Film Comedy -- , Chapter 3. Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abjection Aesthetics -- , Chapter 4. Abject Feminism, Grotesque Comedy, and Apocalyptic Laughter on Inside Amy Schumer -- , Chapter 5. The Animal and the Animalistic: China’s Late 1950s Socialist Satirical Comedy -- , Chapter 6. Anticolonial Folly and the Reversals of Repatriation -- , Chapter seven. Between Technology & Toy: The Talking Doll as Abject Artifact -- , Chapter eight. Absolute Dismemberment: The Burlesque Natural History of Georges Bataille -- , Chapter Nine. Why, an Abject Art -- , Chapter ten. A Matter of Fluids: EC Comics & the Vernacular Abject -- , Chapter eleven. Spit * Light * Spunk: Larry Clark, an Aesthetic of Frankness -- , Chapter twelve. A Series of Ugly Feelings: Fabulation & Abjection in Shōjo Manga -- , Chapter thirteen. Powers of Comedy, or, The Abject Dialectics of Louie -- , Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781478003410

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478003410

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478003410

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 1-4780-0341-3

Content: "From the films of Larry Clark, to the feminist comedy of Amy Schumer, to the fall of Louis CK, comedic, graphic, and violent moments of abjection have permeated twentieth- and twenty-first-century social and political discourse. The contributors to Abjection Incorporated move beyond simple critiques of abjection as a punitive form of social death, illustrating how it has become a contested form of political and cultural capital--empowering for some but oppressive for others. Escaping abjection's usual confines of psychoanalysis and aesthetic modernism, core to theories of abjection by thinkers such as Kristeva and Bataille, the contributors examine a range of media, including literature, photography, film, television, talking dolls, comics, and manga. Whether analyzing how comedic abjection can help mobilize feminist politics or how expressions of abjection inflect class, race, and gender hierarchies, the contributors demonstrate the importance of competing uses of abjection to contemporary society and politics. They emphasize abjection's role in circumscribing the boundaries of the human, and how the threats abjection poses to the self and other, far from simply negative, open up possibilities for radically new politics"--

Note: Includes index. , Not It, or the Abject Objection / Maggie Hennefeld and Nic Sammond. -- The Politics of Abjection / Sylvère Lotringer. -- Part I: Abject Performances: Subjectivity, Identity, Individuality -- Popular Abjection and Gendered Embodiment in South Korean Girl Comedy / Michelle Cho -- Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abject Aesthetics / Rebecca Wanzo. -- Abject Feminism, Grotesque Comedy, and Apocalyptic Laughter / Maggie Hennefeld. -- Part II: Abject Bodies: Humans, Animals, Objects. -- The Animal and the Animalistic in China?s Late China?s Late 1950s Socialist Satirical Comedy / Yiman Wang -- Anticolonial Folly and the Reversals of Repatriation / Rijuta Mehta -- Between Technology and Toy: The Talking Doll as Abject Artifact / Meredith Bak -- Absolute Dismemberment: The Burlesque Natural History of Georges Bataille / James Leo Cahill -- Why, An Abject Art / Marc Mulroney -- Abject Aesthetics: Structure, Form, System -- A Matter of Fluids: EC Comics and Vernacular Abjection / Nic Sammond -- Spit * Light * Spunk: Larry Clark, an Aesthetic of Frankness / Eubgenie Brinkema -- Abjection Serialized: Fabulation and Abjection in Shojo Manga / Thomas Lamarre -- Between the Abject and the Absurd: The Comic Sources of Louie / Rob King. , Issued also in print.

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4780-0302-2

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4780-0189-5

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781478003410

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Format: 1 online resource (383 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 0-231-54706-4

Series Statement: Film and Culture Series

Content: "In Specters of Slapstick, Hennefeld focuses on silent film comediennes and the function of the female body in early slapstick. Laughter is a kind of grating against the absurdity of society, argues Hennefeld. But while male bodies in slapstick tried to violently fight or "escape" their surroundings--slipping on a banana peel and falling, for example--female bodies exhibited a fluidity that reflected an attempt to morph into their changing surroundings. In one slapstick film, a maid humorously cuts off her limbs in order to finish all her household chores in time. In others, women transform into fairies or spiders; all underscore an attempt to assimilate their bodies to the demands of changing environments. This eradicates the traditional opposition between performer and audience, making the "laughing spectator" a more active part of the film experience. As Hennefeld analyzes early slapstick film historiography in light of this theory, she examines larger themes like the evolution of gender, the body, and their place in cinematic comedy"--

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , Part 1. Early Film Combustion -- , 1. Early Cinema and the Comedy of Female Catastrophe -- , 2. Female Combustion and Feminist Film Historiography -- , Part 2. Transitional Film Metamorphosis -- , 3. Slapstick Comediennes in Transitional Cinema: Between Body and Medium -- , 4. The Geopolitics of Transitional Film Comedy: American Vitagraph Versus French Pathé-Frerès -- , 5. D. W. Griffith’s Slapstick Comediennes: Female Corporeality and Narrative Film Storytelling -- , Part 3. Feminist Slapstick Politics -- , 6. Film Comedy Aesthetics and Suffragette Social Politics -- , 7. Radical Militancy and Slapstick Political Violence -- , Postscript: Haunted Laughter at Late Comediennes -- , Annotated Filmography -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-231-17947-2

Language: English

DOI: 10.7312/henn17946

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Format: 1 online resource (350 p.)

ISBN: 0-8135-9960-1

Content: 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.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8135-9958-X

Language: English