Truth in Visual Media : Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics

Edinburgh University Press

Truth in Visual MediaAesthetics, Ethics and Politics\nAuthor(s): Marguerite La Caze, Ted Nannicelli\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781474474467, 978-1474474467\nSynopsis\nThis 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.\nInvestigating 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 p.