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Landscapes of Slow Violence
“Landscapes of Slow Violence” analyzes digital photographs and video of environmental devastation and urban development in the Global South. Case...
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Introduction: The Ambivalences of Violence
This short piece introduces readers to the aims of the Handbook of Violence in Film and Media. It discusses the representation of violence as a...
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Breaking Bad as Philosophy: The Moral Aesthetics of the Anti-hero’s Journey
Breaking Bad has been lauded as the best series ever on television by numerous critics and polls. It follows the “Breaking Bad” (i.e., the moral...
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Colombian Popular Cinemas: Expressions from and About Violence
This article examines a film sector in Colombia ignored by film researchers and institutions, feature films made with a minimal budget from...
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The Aesthetics of Television: Genre, Auteur, Canon
This introductory chapter outlines the long—(er) history of the television art-form—the problems that it has presented for serious scholarship; the...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Violence in Film and Media
The chapters contained in this handbook address key issues concerning the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of violence in film and media. In addition...
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Latinas as carceral collateral: Violence in the lives of Latinas across the carceral community
Prisons have long been scrutinized for their destructive properties inside and outside of their walls, yet most of this work has focused on...
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Communicating Loss: Ice Research, Popular Art and Aesthetics: Introduction
Climate change—in the form of melting ice—is one of the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century—a challenge that is difficult to measure,...
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Heroes, Villains, War and Violence in Game of Thrones
This introductory chapter reflects on the characters that populate the Game of Thrones universe and on violence and warfare in the saga. It presents...
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Politics and Aesthetics of Violence in the Videos of the Islamic State
The so-called Islamic State (henceforth, also IS or Caliphate) has represented an actual turning point in the history of warfare’s visual...
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Fear of Work: Hannah Arendt’s Cold War Aesthetics
This chapter explores one of the post-war period’s most influential accounts of labour through one of its most celebrated thinkers, Hannah Arendt. It...
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Inverted Worlds: The Cannibal Aesthetics of the Pictographs at Cerro Azul
In September 2019, I visited the Serranía La Lindosa in Guaviare, Colombia, with a team of researchers from the National University in Bogotá. The...
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Art and Violence: The Legacy of Avant-Garde Art in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange
Drawing on both critical and archival research (in particular the design research folders at the Stanley Kubrick archive) this chapter will offer an...
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Mónica Mayer’s ‘El Tendedero’ Project: Forty Years of Feminist Art Framing Gender-Based Violence in Mexico
El Tendedero is a living work of art where women who encounter it can hang their testimonies of the different forms of violence they have suffered...
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Don’t Look Now: Ontologies of Off-Screen Violence
Off-screen violence in cinema and popular culture remains an under-explored phenomenon in academic research. While many films have been criticised...
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The Power of Aesthetics: Retablo (2017), Wiñaypacha (2017), Canción sin nombre (2019)
More than a decade after the making of Madeinusa, things seem to have changed in Peruvian film culture in relation to the visibility of, and (albeit...
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Love, Violence, and Consent in Young Adult Vampire Fiction
The new millennium has witnessed a dramatic upsurge in the popularity of the vampire figure in YA culture. Spearheaded by the phenomenon of Buffy the...
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Contemporary (Post-)Migrant Theatre in Belgium and the Migratory Aesthetics of Milo Rau’s Theatre of the Real
This chapter explores theatre and migration in a Belgian context. It first relates the emergence of multicultural and multilingual theatre and dance...
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White Material: Michael Haneke’s Ethics of Violence
This chapter seeks to reassess the work of Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke by suggesting that his recurring preoccupation with the topic of...
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Representing Gender-Based Violence in Spain: Performance Protest, the #Cuéntalo Movement, and Purple Friday
The chapter focuses on the feminist protest cycle against gender violence in Spain between 1997 and 2019 through a selection of case studies. It...