Truth in Visual Media

Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics

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Edited by Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli

Type

Essays

Subject

Theory

Keywords

theory, reality, documentary, ideology

Publishing date

2023

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 264 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-7447-4

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Book Presentation:
This book investigates the interrelations between aesthetics, ethics and politics in a variety of visual media forms, ranging across art installations, film and television, interactive documentaries, painting, photography, social media and videogames. An international mix of emerging and established authors, with interdisciplinary expertise, explores how different ethical questions, political implications and aesthetic pleasures arise and shape one another in distinct visual media.
Investigating themes such as the use of cinema as a medium for ethical and political thought, how documentary subjects both conceal and reveal truth, the new ethical challenges arising from interactive media and the role of images in responding to political events and trauma, this is a groundbreaking work about the interrelations of aesthetic, ethical and political values in visual media.

About the authors:
Dr Marguerite La Caze is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Queensland.Dr Ted Nannicelli is Lecturer in the School of Communication and the Arts, University of Queensland

Press Reviews:
This is a welcome contribution to the growing field of research on the relationships between aesthetics, ethics and politics in visual media. The book offers thought-provoking and well-informed essays from authors with diverse disciplinary backgrounds, addressing a wide range of socially relevant issues. -- Jens Eder, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press