Crime Scenery in Postwar Film and Photography

by Henrik Gustafsson

Book Overview

This book offers a rare and innovative consideration of an enduring tendency in postwar art to explore places devoid of human agents in the wake of violent encounters. To see the scenery together with the crime elicits a double interrogation, not merely of a physical site but also of its formation as an aesthetic artefact, and ultimately of our own acts of looking and imagining. Closely engaging with a vast array of works made by artists, filmmakers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031088883
• ISBN13: 9783031088889
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"