Intensive Media: Aversive Affect and Visual Culture

by Anthony McCosker

Book Overview

There is something unsettling, but also powerful, in the encounter with individual and collective experiences of human suffering. Intensive Media explores the discomfort and fascination initiated by instances of pain and suffering, their 'aversive affects', as they trouble but also vitalise contemporary media environments. In the contexts of crisis, conflict and suffering explored throughout this book, aversive affect operates micropolitically to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113727350X
• ISBN13: 9781137273505
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"