Intensive Media: Aversive Affect and Visual Culture

by Anthony McCosker

Book Overview

Contents Acknowledgements 1. Pain: Aversive Affects and Micropolitics 2. War: Visual Brutality and Affective Vectors 3. Torture: Obscenity and Complicity, from East Timor to Abu Ghraib 4. Disaster: Intensive Encounters with Scenes of Suffering 5. Masochism: Painful Pleasures 6. Salvation: Medieval Techniques, New Affective Communities 7. Illness: Putting it All Online Epilogue Notes Works Cited Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349445274
• ISBN13: 9781349445271
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"