ISBN:
9781137378699
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (320 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.6
Keywords:
World history
;
Violence
;
Violence ; History
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
EPUB.
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1 Violence and Visibility: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives -- 2 Torture By Any Other Name: Prelude to Guantanamo -- Part I Visibilities of Crime, Policing, and Punishment -- 3 The Visibility of Torture in Nineteenth-Century Case Study Collections -- 4 Changing Representations of Scandalous Murders in the United States -- 5 The Power of Indifference: Violence, Visibility, and Invisibility in the New York City Race Riot of 1900 -- 6 Violence, Visibility, and the Investigation of Police Torture in the American South, 1940-1955 -- 7 The "Vicarious Play" of Lynching Melodramas: Cinema and Mob Violence in the United States, 1895-1905 -- 8 Picturing Exclusion: Race, Honor, and Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany before the Second World War -- Part II Visibilities of Warfare -- 9 Life and Death in Peep Boxes: Bringing the Civil War to the American Home -- 10 Images of Violence in Wehrmacht Soldiers' Private Photo Albums -- 11 Making Photographs Historic: The Use of Historical Black-and-White Stills in NBC's Fictional Miniseries Holocaust -- 12 Shiny Happy Warfare? New York Victory Parades and the (In)Visibility of Violence -- 13 Violence and Historical Reenactment: From the American Civil War to the Moore's Ford Lynching -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record
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