Truth in Visual Media

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

• Introduction - Marguerite La Caze and Ted NannicelliPart I: Aesthetics1. Repair and the Irreparable in Contemporary Aboriginal Art - Susan Best2. Circulating Bodies: Retelling the Trauma of the Algerian War through Photography and Art - Amy L. Hubbell3. An I for an Eye: The Collective Shaping of Experience in the Age of Machine-Mediated Art - Ellen Saethre-McGuirkPart II: Ethics4. The Ethics of Filmmaking: How the Genetic History of Works Affects their Value - Mette Hjort5. The Look of Silence and the Ethics of Atonement - Marguerite La Caze6. Truth, Performance, and the Close-Up: Paradoxical Candour in Errol Morris’ "Interrotron" Interviews - Robert Sinnerbrink7. Mindhunter: The Possibility of Knowing Evil - Damian CoxPart III: Politics8. Interactive Documentary, Narrative Scepticism, and the Values of Documentary Film - Ted Nannicelli9. Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children! On the Moralisation of Video Game Violence - Grant Tavinor10. Re-Reading Personal Influence in an Age of Social Media - Tom O’Regan11. Principles of Exchange: Free Speech in the era of Fake News - Kris FallonNotes on Contributors

This is a welcome contribution to the growing field of research on the relationships between aesthetics, ethics and politics in visual media. The book offers thought-provoking and well-informed essays from authors with diverse disciplinary backgrounds, addressing a wide range of socially relevant issues.