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

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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

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