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Nov 28, 2024
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CORE 003 SC - Regarding the Pain of Others: Ethics and Documentary Representation
“Being a spectator of calamities taking place in another country is a quintessential modern experience,” as Susan Sontag writes. Focusing on contemporary documentary cinema, this course invites students to reflect on the production and consumption of images today, especially those that depict violence (war, genocide, torture, but also economic violence, domestic violence, or ecological degradation). We will discuss issues of visual politics (who represents whom? who is made visible or invisible?), documentary ethics (how does one represent other people’s suffering and why?), and spectatorship (how do we/should we consume, read, and experience images of violence or its aftermath?).
Course Credit: 1.0
Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
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