Truth in Visual Media: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics
Marguerite La Caze and Ted Nannicelli
Abstract
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 particular ways in distinct visual media. Investigating themes such as the use of cinema as a medium for ethical and political thought, ... More
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 particular ways 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.
Keywords:
Aesthetics,
Ethics,
Politics,
Truth,
Visual media
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781474474467 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: May 2022 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474474467.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Marguerite La Caze, editor
University of Queensland
Ted Nannicelli, editor
University of Queensland
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