This book provides a comprehensive, critical overview of the turn to ethics in literature, film, and visual culture. It discusses the concept of a biovisual et...
Tracing the rise of extreme art cinema across films from Lars von Trier's The Idiots to Michael Haneke's Cach#65533;, Asbj#65533;rn Gr#65533;nstad revives the...
byAsbjørn Grønstad,Øyvind Vågnes
The essays in Invisibility in Visual and Material Culture contribute pioneering and revelatory insights into the phenomenon of invisibility, forging new and mul...
byAsbjørn Grønstad,Henrik Gustafsson
Few phenomena are as formative of our experience of the visual world as displays of suffering. But what does it mean to have an ethical experience of disturbing...
byØyvind Vågnes,Asbjørn Grønstad,Henrik Gustafsson
The first book of its kind, Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing engages broadly with the often too neglected yet significant questions of gesture in v...
byErika Balsom,Kenneth Berger,Susie Bright,Alex Bush,Alec Butler,Noel Carroll,Mel Chen,Jonathan Crary,Abigail Kosnik,Samuel England,Mattias Frey,Peter Geimer,Michael Gillespie,Asbjørn Grønstad,Boris Groys,Frances Guerin,Jack Halberstam,Barbara Hammer,Julian Hanich,Stefano Harney,J. Hoberman,Lynne Joyrich,Alexandra Juhasz,E. Kaplan,Katariina Kyrölä,Nathan Lee,Akira Lippit,Jennifer Malkowski, W.J.T. Mitchell,Brandy Monk-Payton,Fred Moten,Bill Nichols,Jan Olsson,Danielle Peers,Raul Perez,Mauro Resmini,B. Rich,Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi,Jonathan Rosenbaum,Rebecca Schneider,Jeffrey Sconce,Jared Sexton,Philipp Stiasny,Meghan Sutherland,Bennet Togler,Leshu Torchin,Alok Vaid-Menon,Christophe Wall-Romana,Meir Wigoder,Emily Wills,Federico Windhausen,Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa,Genevieve Yue,Alenka Zupancic,Poulomi Saha,Vivian Sobchack
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 vid...
This is the first book to offer a systematic account of the concept of opacity in the aesthetic field. Engaging with works by Ernie Gehr, John Akomfrah, Matt Sa...
This book focuses on the theme of counter-surveillance in art through a multi-faceted engagement with the highly controversial Norwegian play Ways of Seeing. D...