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Regarding the Pain of Others
- Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
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Summary
Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returned here to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newsprint) affect us? Are viewers inured - or incited - to violence by the depiction of cruelty?
In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity - from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of Blacks in the South, and the Nazi death camps, and to more contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Israel, and Palestine, as well as New York City on September 11, 2001.
Sontag once again changes the way we think about the uses and meanings of images in our world, and offers an important reflection about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time.
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- Ms. L. J. Pantrey
- 03-09-20
Culmination of a clear line of thought
This was key reading on my MA and it's clear to see why. It is the collection of a line of thought influenced by lots of other very important critical theories and thinkers. A must read/hear.
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- Anthony
- 21-07-14
Updated and deepened 'On photography'
Thoughtful, challenging and thought-provoking...
Susan Sontag updates her 1977 collection of essays "On Photography" collated from contributions to the New York Review of Books between 1973 and 1977. She revisits debates about the importance of images, the positioning of photo-journalists, the ethics of portrayal... taking account more latterly of the post 9/11 world, the omnipresent digital images engulfing us and the 24-hour news cycle. She highlights the quest for shocking images, one after the other, with which to titillate and attract viewers and advertisers, demonstrating what we lose... in depth and analysis ... and meaning and caring... as a result.
Sontag's empathy with others, dissatisfaction with the state of global and domestic politics, and concerns with the shallow commodification of news, images and insights, shine through.
Beautifully written, argued and read.
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- JThornton
- 15-05-16
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