Seeing Ghosts - 9/11 and the Visual Imagination

Seeing Ghosts - 9/11 and the Visual Imagination

von: Karen Engle

MQUP, 2009

ISBN: 9780773578210 , 224 Seiten

Format: ePUB

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Seeing Ghosts - 9/11 and the Visual Imagination


 

Starting from the tremendous fascination with images of 9/11, Karen Engle asks what, in the context of a national trauma, makes an image appropriate or scandalous, exploring how diverse visual media have been mobilized in political projects of identification and personal narratives of empathy. Focusing on themes of memory, mourning, and history, Engle examines sculptural, photographic, and new media responses to the 9/11 attacks in both contemporary and historical contexts, considers the public's reaction to these visual productions, and suggests that earlier presentations of America at war play a pivotal role in the representations of 9/11 in both official and popular media.