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[ecrea] new book: How film and media inspire a response to genocide as an international crime

Wed Nov 14 04:02:08 GMT 2012




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How film and media inspire a response to genocide as an international crime

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CREATING THE WITNESS: Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet
By Leshu Torchin
University of Minnesota Press | 280 pages | 2012
ISBN 978-0-8166-7623-1 | paperback | $25.00
ISBN 978-0-8166-7622-4 | cloth | $75.00
Series: Visible Evidence, Vol. 26

/Creating the Witness/ examines the role of film and the Internet in creating virtual witnesses to genocide over the past one hundred years. Leshu Torchin's broad survey of media and the social practices around it investigates the development of popular understandings of genocide to achieve recognition and response, ultimately calling on viewers to act on behalf of human rights.
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*PRAISE FOR /CREATING THE WITNESS/:*
"Stunning, urgent, forceful, and necessary, /Creating the Witness/ exorcises the ghostly and ghastly representations of genocide and pushes them beyond the graveyards and the archives of trauma. This magnificent, grounded, and rigorously researched book boldly probes a century of imaging genocides in Armenia, Germany, Rwanda, the Balkans, the Philippines, the United States, and Darfur across photography, documentary, popular culture narrative films, user-generated media, and gaming. Leshu Torchin guts how we see and think about genocide: no longer spectres or spectacles, those images of the dead from across the globe animate dynamic ethical engagements, converting horrified reactions into collective action." ---*Patricia R. Zimmermann*, author of /States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies/

*ABOUT THE AUTHOR:*
*Leshu Torchin* is lecturer in film studies at the University of St. Andrews.

For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/creating-the-witness
http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/series/visible-evidence

Please email me if you have any questions.

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University of Minnesota Press
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