No Power Without an Image

Libby Saxton is Reader in Film Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She is author of Haunted Images: Film, Ethics, Testimony and the Holocaust (Wallflower, 2008), co-author of Film and Ethics: Foreclosed Encounters (Routledge, 2010) and co-editor of Holocaust Intersections: Genocide and Visual Culture at the New Millennium (Legenda: 2013). She is writing a book on iconic images, photography and cinema.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Paper, Water, Ice: The Falling Soldier 2. The Double Life of the Gestapo Informer 3. Apocalyptic Stillness: The Self-Immolators 4. The Face of the Crowd: Che5. Film Frame, Film Still, Star Portrait: The Marianne of ’68Epilogue. Protesting WomenBibliographyFilmography

This book is a sophisticated and subtle discussion of the hitherto forgotten contexts of iconic photographs, which demonstrates the complex intertextuality of the historic photograph and the dangers inherent in isolating it from its place in visual culture.