Images of Unrest - Documentary Film and Political Violence

This book studies the relation between documentary film and political violence, treating images not as representations, but as original experiences that are a part of a reality that they both present and shape.

​​​​​​​Whereas documentary film scholarship has often been preoccupied with questions of the referentiality and representation, Images of Unrest: Documentary Film and Political Violence prioritises the question of what images do. The volume argues that this approach, far from being an abnegation of our responsibility towards the real, heightens the ethical stakes of documentary filmmaking and filmviewing, reminding us that we are always in and of the real.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Nikolaj Lübecker is Professor of French and Film Studies at The University of Oxford. His previous publications include Twenty-First-Century Symbolism: Verlaine, Baudelaire, Mallarmé (2022), James Benning's Environments (co-edited with Daniele Rugo, 2019) and The Feel-Bad Film (2015).

Zusammenfassung

Formulates a new understanding of political violence by approaching documentary images as original experiences.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nikolaj (Professor of French and Film St Lubecker, Nikolaj (Professor of French and Film Studies Lubecker, Nikolaj Lübecker, Daniele Rugo, Daniele (Senior Lecturer Rugo
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erscheint: 01.04.2026
• EAN: 9781399557122
• ISBN: 978-1-399-55712-2
• Seiten: 236
• Serie: Edinburgh Studies in Film and Intermediality
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett