[ecrea] controversial images - Media Representations on the Edge

Colleagues may be interested in a new collection, ŒControversial Images: 
Media Representations on the Edge¹, edited by Feona Attwood, Vincent

Campbell, I.Q. Hunter and Sharon Lockyer
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=482478

Introduction: Controversy and the Crisis of the Image; Feona Attwood,
Vincent Campbell, I.Q.Hunter&  Sharon Lockyer

PART I: CONTROVERSY AND REPRESENTATION

Media-Bodies and Photoshop; Meredith Jones

Representation and Resemblance in The Case of the Danish Cartoons;
Catherine Ann Collins&  David Douglass

Imitation and Controversy: Performing (Trans)Sexuality in Post-communist
Bulgaria; Plamena Kourtova

X-Ray Visions: Photography, Propaganda and Guantánamo Bay; Bruce Bennett

PART II: CONSTRUCTING CONTROVERSIES

'The Terrorists with Highlights': Kurdish Female Suicide Bombers in
Mainstream Turkish Media; Ertug Altinay

Constructing Effects: Disturbing Images and the News Construction of
'media influence' in the Virginia Tech Shootings; Jeremy Collins

Border Patrol: Trevor Brown, Aesthetics and the Protection of Fictitious
Children; Adam Stapleton

'The Following Content Is Not Acceptable'; Julian Petley

PART III: ETHICS AND AESTHETICS IN CONTROVERSIAL MEDIA

Cutting Edge: Violence and Body Horror in Anime; Caroline Ruddell

'It's Gonna Hurt a Little Bit. But That's Okay ­ It Makes My Cock Feel
Good': Max Hardcore and the Myth of Pleasure; Stephen Maddison

The Lexicon of Offense: The Meanings of Torture, Porn, and 'Torture Porn';
Steve Jones

The Beast Within: Materiality, Ethics and Animal Porn; Susanna Paasonen

PART IV: ENGAGING WITH CONTROVERSIAL IMAGES

Embracing Rape: Understanding the Attractions of Exploitation Movies;
Martin Barker

His Soul Shatters at About 0:23: Spankwire, Self-Scaring and Hyberbolic
Shock; Julia Kennedy&  Clarissa Smith

Playing with Controversial Images in Videogames: The Terrorist Mission
Controversy in 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2'; Vincent Campbell

'A Bad Taste Business': TV Journalists Reflect on the Limits of News
Images; Paul Brighton





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