Truth in Visual Media: Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1474474470 ISBN 13: 9781474474474

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Shows how aesthetic, ethical, and political questions intersect in a range of art forms as found in traditional media Addresses key aesthetic, ethical, and political questions in visual media Examines contemporary films, television, photography, painting and new visual media such as videogames, Facebook, and interactive documentaries Offers an international mix of emerging and senior authors with interdisciplinary expertise This book investigates the interrelations between aesthetics, ethics and politics in a variety of visual media forms, ranging across art installations, film and television, interactive documentaries, painting, photography, social media and videogames. An international mix of emerging and established authors, with interdisciplinary expertise, explores how different ethical questions, political implications and aesthetic pleasures arise and shape one another in distinct visual media. Investigating themes such as the use of cinema as a medium for ethical and political thought, how documentary subjects both conceal and reveal truth, the new ethical challenges arising from interactive media and the role of images in responding to political events and trauma, this is a groundbreaking work about the interrelations of aesthetic, ethical and political values in visual media.

About this title

About the Authors

Dr Marguerite La Caze is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Queensland.

Dr Ted Nannicelli is Lecturer in the School of Communication and the Arts, University of Queensland

From the Back Cover

This book investigates the interrelations between aesthetics, ethics and politics in a variety of visual media forms, ranging across art installations, film and television, interactive documentaries, painting, photography, social media and videogames. An international mix of emerging and established authors, with interdisciplinary expertise, explores how different ethical questions, political implications and aesthetic pleasures arise and shape one another in distinct visual media. Investigating themes such as the use of cinema as a medium for ethical and political thought, how documentary subjects both conceal and reveal truth, the new ethical challenges arising from interactive media and the role of images in responding to political events and trauma, this is a groundbreaking work about the interrelations of aesthetic, ethical and political values in visual media. Marguerite La Caze is Associate Professor in philosophy at the University of Queensland. Ted Nannicelli is Senior Lecturer in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474474470
• ISBN 13: 9781474474474
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: La Caze Marguerite, Nannicelli Ted