The Cruel Radiance

Author : Susie Linfield
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226482510
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cruel Radiance written by Susie Linfield and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susie Linfield addresses the issue of whether photographs depicting past scenes of violence & cruelty are voyeuristic, arguing that if we do not look & understand that we are seeing at people, rather than depersonalised acts of inhumanity, our hopes of curbing political violence today are probably limited.

Author : Tom Rankin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807882429
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cruel Radiance of the Obvious written by Tom Rankin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introductory essay uses William Eggleston as the point of entry to preview the entire photography issue and includes striking photographs from Ansel Adams, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Susan Harbage Page—as well as exploring the stunning work of Paul Kwilecki. "Photography in its finest and most decisive moments is about those tired or ignored or unseen parts of our lives, the mundane and worn paths that sit before us so firmly that we cease to notice. It is, we might say, about rebuilding our sight in the face of blindness, of recovering our collective vision." This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures: The Photography Issue.

Author : Ron Powers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cruel Radiance written by Ron Powers and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, stories, & literary nonfiction, a noted journalist defends fine storytelling in an age of mass-mediated culture

Author : Valerie Hébert
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 029934410X
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Framing the Holocaust written by Valerie Hébert and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2023 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1941, German police and their local collaborators shot 2,749 Jews at the beach in Sķēde, near Liepāja, Latvia. Twelve photographs were taken at the scene. These now-infamous images show people in extreme distress, sometimes without clothing. Some capture the very moments when women and children confronted their imminent deaths, while others show their dead bodies. They are nearly unbearable to look at--so why should we? Framing the Holocaust offers a multidimensional response to this question. While photographs are central to our memory of modern historical events, they often inhabit an ambivalent intellectual space. What separates the sincere desire to understand from voyeuristic curiosity? Comprehending atrocity photographs requires viewers to place themselves in the very positions of the perpetrators who took the images. When we engage with these photographs, do we risk replicating the original violence? In this tightly organized book, scholars of history, photography, language, gender, photojournalism, and pedagogy examine the images of the Sķēde atrocity along with other difficult images, giving historical, political, and ethical depth to the acts of looking and interpreting. With a foreword by Edward Anders, who narrowly escaped the December 1941 shooting, Framing the Holocaust represents an original approach to an iconic series of Holocaust photographs. This book will contribute to compelling debates in the emerging field of visual history, including the challenges and responsibilities of using photographs to teach about atrocity.

Author : Raven Edward Drake
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781511645768
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cruel Radiance written by Raven Edward Drake and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-04-12 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of poetry inspired by mythology and etymology.

Author : Randy Hendricks
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572334601
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Madden written by Randy Hendricks and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four decades, Knoxville, Tennessee, native David Madden has been writing compelling bestsellers, such as Bijou and The Suicide's Wife, as well as highly respected literary novels, such as Sharpshooter. David Madden: A Writer for All Genres is the first full-length critical work devoted to the whole of Madden's oeuvre, and collectively the essays make the case that the attention paid to Madden's novels has overshadowed his innovative work as a critic, poet, short-story writer, and dramatist. Madden is indeed a writer for all genres--poetry, fiction, drama, and criticism. David Madden: A Writer for all Genres will introduce a new generation of readers to an important and multitalented writer and begin a well-deserved, serious discussion of his place in the American literary tradition.

Author : Laura Hilton
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299328600
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust written by Laura Hilton and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few topics in modern history draw the attention that the Holocaust does. The Shoah has become synonymous with unspeakable atrocity and unbearable suffering. Yet it has also been used to teach tolerance, empathy, resistance, and hope. Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust provides a starting point for teachers in many disciplines to illuminate this crucial event in world history for students. Using a vast array of source materials—from literature and film to survivor testimonies and interviews—the contributors demonstrate how to guide students through these sensitive and painful subjects within their specific historical and social contexts. Each chapter provides pedagogical case studies for teaching content such as antisemitism, resistance and rescue, and the postwar lives of displaced persons. It will transform how students learn about the Holocaust and the circumstances surrounding it.

Author : Jeff Sharlet
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300206968
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radiant Truths written by Jeff Sharlet and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with Walt Whitman singing hymns at a wounded soldier’s bedside during the Civil War, this surprising and vivid anthology ranges straight through to the twenty-first century to end with Francine Prose crying tears of complicated joy at the sight of Whitman’s words in Zuccotti Park during the brief days of the Occupy movement. The first anthology of its kind, Radiant Truths gathers an exquisite selection of writings by both well-known and forgotten American authors and thinkers, each engaged in the challenges of writing about religion, of documenting “things unseen.” Their contributions to the genre of literary journalism—the telling of factual stories using the techniques of fiction and poetry—make this volume one of the most exciting anthologies of creative nonfiction to have emerged in years. Jeff Sharlet presents an evocative selection of writings that illuminate the evolution of the American genre of documentary prose. Each entry may be savored separately, but together the works enrich one another, engaging in an implicit and continuing conversation that reaches across time and generations. Including works by: Walt Whitman • Henry David Thoreau • Mark Twain • Meridel Le Sueur • Zora Neale Hurston • Mary McCarthy • James Baldwin • Norman Mailer • Ellen Willis • Anne Fadiman • John Jeremiah Sullivan • Francine Prose • Garry Wills • and many others

Author : Steven John Youra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Cruel Radiance" written by Steven John Youra and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Coles
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195124958
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing Documentary Work written by Robert Coles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates the nature of documentary work, arguing that the work of an observer is not only to represent, but also to interpret reality, and uses examples from literature and photography to show how the observers' personal frame of reference has influenced his or her work.