{"product_id":"unwatchable-hardback-9780813599595","title":"Unwatchable (Hardback) 9780813599595","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eUnwatchable\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eNicholas Baer (Edited by), Maggie Hennefeld (Edited by), Laura Horak (Edited by), Gunnar Iversen (Edited by), Erika Balsom (Contributions by), Kenneth Berger (Contributions by), Susie Bright (Contributions by), Alex Bush (Contributions by), Alec Butler (Contributions by), Noel Carroll (Contributions by), Mel Chen (Contributions by), Jonathan Crary (Contributions by), Abigail De Kosnik (Contributions by), Samuel England (Contributions by), Mattias Frey (Contributions by), Peter Geimer (Contributions by), Michael Boyce Gillespie (Contributions by), Asbjørn Grønstad (Contributions by), Boris Groys (Contributions by), Frances Guerin (Contributions by), Jack Halberstam (Contributions by), Barbara Hammer (Contributions by), Julian Hanich (Contributions by), Stefano Harney (Contributions by), J. Hoberman (Contributions by), Lynne Joyrich (Contributions by), Alexandra Juhasz (Contributions by), E. Ann Kaplan (Contributions by), Katariina Kyrölä (Contributions by), Nathan Lee (Contributions by), Akira Lippit (Contributions by), Jennifer Malkowski (Contributions by), W.J.T. Mitchell (Contributions by), Brandy Monk-Payton (Contributions by), Fred Moten (Contributions by), Bill Nichols (Contributions by), Jan Olsson (Contributions by), Danielle Peers (Contributions by), Raul Perez (Contributions by), Mauro Resmini (Contributions by), B. Ruby Rich (Contributions by), Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi (Contributions by), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Contributions by), Rebecca Schneider (Contributions by), Jeffrey Sconce (Contributions by), Jared Sexton (Contributions by), Philipp Stiasny (Contributions by), Meghan Sutherland (Contributions by), Bennet Togler (Contributions by), Leshu Torchin (Contributions by), Alok Vaid-Menon (Contributions by), Christophe Wall-Romana (Contributions by), Meir Wigoder (Contributions by), Emily Wills (Contributions by), Federico Windhausen (Contributions by), Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa (Contributions by), Genevieve Yue (Contributions by), Alenka Zupancic (Contributions by), Poulomi Saha (Contributions by), Vivian Sobchack (Contributions by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813599595\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 14 January 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e412 pages, 51 images\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.49 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"By posing a seemingly modest question-what visual experiences in our media-saturated world are 'unwatchable?'-the editors of this remarkable volume have elicited an astonishing range of intensely felt responses. They reveal the most potent anxieties of our troubled times, forcing us to attend to what we cannot bear to witness directly.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Martin Jay (author of Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This thoughtfully curated anthology of short essays comes at a classical aesthetic problem with a fresh sense of historical urgency and from a number of truly new, often surprising directions. Radically extending the conceptual reach of its title, \u003ci\u003eUnwatchable \u003c\/i\u003eoffers readers real traction on core questions in media and cultural studies surrounding taste, identity, and embodied experience as it navigates deftly across the dizzying landscape of contemporary spectatorship.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Sianne Ngai (author of Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A compelling foray into the bio- and necropolitics of spectacle, suffering, and violence. The short pieces in this weighty collection linger uncomfortably, highlighting the incommensurability of the unwatchable and the unthinkable.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Jasbir K. Puar (author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"While many edited anthologies boast interdisciplinarity and intermediality, \u003ci\u003eUnwatchable\u003c\/i\u003e stands out for the astounding reach of the media and discourses marshalled under its theme. Its implications are manifold, evidence that 'unwatchable' is more than just an aesthetic category. \u003ci\u003eUnwatchable\u003c\/i\u003e’s editors suggest that the currently unobservable, whether expressly repudiated or involuntarily rendered invisible, will surely linger and haunt the public imagination for years-if not generations-to come.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Film Quarterly) \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/player.fm\/series\/new-books-in-popular-culture-2421448\/nicholas-baer-et-al-unwatchable-rutgers-up-2019\"'\u003eNew Books Network: New Books in Popular Culture -- New Books in film podcast interview with\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org\/search-list\/?contributor=nicholas-baer\"'\u003eNicholas Baer\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/player.fm\/series\/new-books-in-popular-culture-2421448\/nicholas-baer-et-al-unwatchable-rutgers-up-2019\"'\u003e, \u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org\/search-list\/?contributor=maggie-hennefeld\"'\u003eMaggie Hennefeld\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/player.fm\/series\/new-books-in-popular-culture-2421448\/nicholas-baer-et-al-unwatchable-rutgers-up-2019\"'\u003e, \u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org\/search-list\/?contributor=laura-horak\"'\u003eLaura Horak\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/player.fm\/series\/new-books-in-popular-culture-2421448\/nicholas-baer-et-al-unwatchable-rutgers-up-2019\"'\u003e, and \u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/www.rutgersuniversitypress.org\/search-list\/?contributor=gunnar-iversen\"'\u003eGunnar Iversen\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e (New Books Network - New Books in Film) \u003cdiv\u003e\u003ca href='\"https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/confronting-the-unwatchable\/#!\"'\u003e\"Confronting the Unwatchable,\" by Maggie Hennefeld and Nicholas Baer\u003cbr\u003e https:\/\/lareviewofbooks.org\/article\/confronting-the-unwatchable\/#!\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e (Los Angeles Review of Books) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A substantial collection of essays, bristling with anxiety about the social impact of the kind of mediations broadcasting the news requires of us daily.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Times Literary Supplement) \u003cdiv\u003e\"The tone of the writing is refreshing-sometimes experimental and at others painfully reflective. Readers embark on deeply personal and highly politicised journeys with contributors, recalling harrowing moments from cinematic, televisual, world, and personal history.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Moveable Type) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eUnwatchable\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful, potent collection because of its mission to crack our fingers apart just a little bit wider to see more of what we're averse to. Look for this book.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Jump Cut) \u003cdiv\u003e\"The anthology is an impressive collection of essays written by over fifty scholars and artists working on issues in film and media studies from a variety of disciplines and professional (as well as personal) perspectives, each of whom attempts to struggle with sharing what it means for something to be 'unwatchable' for them. Researchers on related issues in film, media, gender, politics, and philosophy broadly construed will find much that is both new and old to consider anew and to reconsider, while those new to such debates may find another space within which to theorize.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This anthology does nothing less than challenge us to grapple with the criteria and ramifications of the unwatchable. It does not offer any one-dimensional or easily digestible answers to the complex questions raised in individual contributions. Though its richness and variety, it instead makes possible a deeper understanding of the concept of the unwatchable, which has become a crucial category across global media and politics.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (MEDIENwissenschaft: Rezensionen) \u003cdiv\u003e\"A socially urgent and intellectually galvanizing book. \u003ci\u003eUnwatchable\u003c\/i\u003e opens up a vital critical space for sharing the burden of navigating the difficult, often painful terrain of the twenty-first century visual regime. Highly readable, and productively challenging, it is a book that will inform our discussions of the politics of watching (and not watching) for a long time to come.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Journal of Cinema and Media Studies) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This is a volume edited by the discipline’s top scholars and featuring some of our most brilliant theorists. Film scholars will doubtless be citing the essays in this volume for a long time to come. I know I will. What is likely to impress students, and what this collection gifts so gorgeously, is its demonstration of the way theory and film alike can crack open the most pressing issues of our day and offer moral support and ethical guidance for thinking through a life lived as citizen and spectator.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (The Communication Review) \u003cdiv\u003e\"This book will find its greatest connections in studies of both the ethics and aesthetics of visual culture at its fringes.\"\u003c\/div\u003e (Communication Booknotes Quarterly) \u003cdiv\u003e\"Carefully edited to allow multiple voices and experiences to be in dialogue and sometimes challenge each other, \u003ci\u003eUnwatchable \u003c\/i\u003eshows how productive the unwatchable is as a moral and aesthetic category and also reveals that when it comes to these images, our watch has just begun.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Aurore Spiers (Discourse)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWe all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as unsuitable for viewing. Yet what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable”: disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inaccessible?\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e With over 50 original essays by leading scholars, artists, critics, and curators, this is the first book to trace the “unwatchable” across our contemporary media environment, in which viewers encounter difficult content on various screens and platforms. Appealing to a broad academic and general readership, the volume offers multidisciplinary approaches to the vast array of troubling images that circulate in global visual culture.  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Envisioning the Unwatchable\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Violence and Testimony\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Theorizing the Unwatchable\u003cbr\u003e 1. W. J. T. Mitchell, Unwatchable\u003cbr\u003e 2. Boris Groys, The Gaze from Within\u003cbr\u003e 3. Stefano Harney and Fred Moten, The Unwatchable and the Unwatchable\u003cbr\u003e 4. Alenka Zupančič, Melting Into Visibility\u003cbr\u003e 5. Meghan Sutherland, Pro Forma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Spectacles of Destruction\u003cbr\u003e 6. Jonathan Crary, Terminal Radiance\u003cbr\u003e 7. Poulomi Saha, Unwatched\/Unmanned: Drone Strikes and the Aesthetics of the Unseen\u003cbr\u003e 8. Alex Bush, Breakaway\u003cbr\u003e 9. Meir Wigoder, The Watchability of the Unwatchable: Television Disaster Coverage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bearing Witness\u003cbr\u003e 10. Peter Geimer, The Incommensurable\u003cbr\u003e 11. Leshu Torchin, Not Seeing is Believing: The Unwatchable in Advocacy\u003cbr\u003e 12. Frances Guerin, \u003ci\u003eEven If She Had Been a Criminal\u003c\/i\u003e: A Past Unwatched\u003cbr\u003e 13. Federico Windhausen, Deframing Evidence: A Transmission from Los ingrÁ\u003cbr\u003evidos\u003cbr\u003e 14. Emily Regan Wills, Alan Kurdi’\u003cbr\u003es Body on the Shore\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Visual Regimes of Racial Violence\u003cbr\u003e 15. Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Held Helpless in the Breach: On \u003ci\u003eAmerican History X\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 16. Jared Sexton, The Flash of History: On the Unwatchable in \u003ci\u003eGet Out\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 17. Alexandra Juhasz, Nothing is Unwatchable for All\u003cbr\u003e 18. Michael Boyce Gillespie, Empathy. Complicity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Spectacularization and Resistance\u003cbr\u003e 19. Alok Vaid-Menon, Entertainment Value\u003cbr\u003e 20. Alec Butler, Holocausts, Hallowe’\u003cbr\u003een, and Headdresses\u003cbr\u003e 21. Danielle Peers, Unwitnessable: Outrageous Ableist Impersonations and Unwitnessed Everyday Violence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II:  Histories and Genres\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Tradition of Provocateurs\u003cbr\u003e 22. AsbjØ\u003cbr\u003ern GrØ\u003cbr\u003enstad, The Two Unwatchables\u003cbr\u003e 23. Akira Lippit, Real Horrorshow\u003cbr\u003e 24. Mauro Resmini, Asymmetries of Desire: \u003ci\u003eSalÒ\u003cbr\u003e, or the 120 Days of Sodom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 25. Mattias Frey, Unstomachable: \u003ci\u003eIrrÉ\u003cbr\u003eversible \u003c\/i\u003eand the Extreme Cinema Tradition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Enduring the Avant-Garde\u003cbr\u003e 26. Christophe Wall-Romana, Unwatchability by Choice: Isou’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eVenom and Eternity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 27. Kenneth Berger, The Refusal of Spectacle: Debord’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eHowls for Sade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 28. J. Hoberman, Warhol’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eEmpire\u003c\/i\u003e: Unwatched and Unwatchable\u003cbr\u003e 29. NoË\u003cbr\u003el Carroll, Warhol's \u003ci\u003eEmpire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 30. Erika Balsom, Watching Paint Dry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Visceral Responses to Horror\u003cbr\u003e 31. Vivian Sobchack, “\u003cbr\u003ePeekaboo”\u003cbr\u003e: Thoughts on (Maybe Not) Seeing Two Horror Films\u003cbr\u003e 32. B. Ruby Rich, Why I Cannot Watch\u003cbr\u003e 33. Genevieve Yue, Apotropes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pornography and the Question of Pleasure\u003cbr\u003e 34. Susie Bright, I Am Curious (Butterball)\u003cbr\u003e 35. Bill Nichols, At the Threshold to the Void\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Archives and the Disintegrating Image\u003cbr\u003e 36. Elif Rongen-KaynakÇ\u003cbr\u003ei, Restoring \u003ci\u003eBlood Money\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 37. Jan Olsson, Turning Garbo Watchable: From Swedish Bread Bun to Hollywood Goddess\u003cbr\u003e 38. Philipp Stiasny and Bennet Togler, Twilight of the Dead\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part III: Spectators and Objects\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Passionate Aversions\u003cbr\u003e 39. Jonathan Rosenbaum, “\u003cbr\u003eSad!”\u003cbr\u003e: Why I Won’\u003cbr\u003et Watch \u003ci\u003eAntichrist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 40. Nathan Lee, Transforming Nihilism\u003cbr\u003e 41. Julian Hanich, Oh, Inventiveness! Oh, Imaginativeness! Precious Cinema and Its Discontents: A Rant\u003cbr\u003e 42. Jeffrey Sconce, The Biopic is an Affront to the Cinema\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tedious Whiteness\u003cbr\u003e 43. Jack Halberstam, White Men Behaving Sadly\u003cbr\u003e 44. Brandy Monk-Payton, “\u003cbr\u003eYou is Kind, You is Smart, You is Important”\u003cbr\u003e or, Why I Can't Watch \u003ci\u003eThe Help\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 45. Mel Y. Chen, Two Tables and a Ladder: WCGW?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Reality Trumpism\u003cbr\u003e 46. Lynne Joyrich, TV Trumps\u003cbr\u003e 47. Abigail De Kosnik, The Once and Future Hillary: Why I Won't Watch Any Fictionalizations of the 2016 Election\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pedagogy and Campus Politics\u003cbr\u003e 48. RaÚ\u003cbr\u003el PÉ\u003cbr\u003erez, Why We Can’\u003cbr\u003et Take a Joke\u003cbr\u003e 49. Jennifer Malkowski, \u003ci\u003eThe Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e and Unteachable Films\u003cbr\u003e 50. Katariina KyrÖ\u003cbr\u003elÄ\u003cbr\u003e, Squirming in the Classroom: \u003ci\u003eFat Girl\u003c\/i\u003e and the Ethical Value of Extreme Discomfort\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Triggered Spectator\u003cbr\u003e 51. E. Ann Kaplan, What is an “\u003cbr\u003eUnwatchable”\u003cbr\u003e Film? (With Reference to \u003ci\u003eAmour \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eStill Alice\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e 52. Barbara Hammer, Watch at Your Own Peril\u003cbr\u003e 53. Samuel England, Sects, Fries, and Videotape\u003cbr\u003e 54. Rebecca Schneider, Off Watch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Filmography\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563732824344,"sku":"9780813599595","price":63.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/unwatchable-hardback-9780813599595","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}