| Regarding the Pain of Others Contributor(s): Sontag, Susan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312422199 ISBN-13: 9780312422196 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2004 Annotation: Twenty-five years after her classic "On Photography," Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in the culture today. She once again changes the way readers think about the uses and meanings of images in the world, and offers an important reflection about how war itself is waged--and understood. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Social Science | Violence In Society - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 303.6 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 5.5" W x 8.28" (0.31 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today. How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newsprint) affect us? Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the depiction of cruelty? In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and the Nazi death camps, to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Israel and Palestine, and New York City on September 11, 2001. In Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag once again changes the way we think about the uses and meanings of images in our world, and offers an important reflection about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sontag, Susan: - Susan Sontag was the author of four novels, including The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and nine works of essays, among then On Photography, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award for criticism. In 2001, Sontag was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. She died in New York City in 2004. |