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Carleton Film Seminar: Unwatchable!
January 22, 2019 at 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
| Location: | 201D (ICSLAC Seminar Room) St. Patrick's Building |
| Cost: | Free |
Discuss Unwatchable (Rutgers UP, 2019), a new collection co-edited by professors Laura Horak and Gunnar Iversen (et al).
Email laura.horak@carleton.ca to receive a selection of essays from the book to read in advance.
We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us as unsuitable for viewing. Yet what does it mean to proclaim something “unwatchable”: disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inaccessible?
With over 50 original essays by leading scholars, artists, critics, and curators, this is the first book to trace the “unwatchable” across our contemporary media environment, in which viewers encounter difficult content on various screens and platforms. Appealing to a broad academic and general readership, the volume offers multidisciplinary approaches to the vast array of troubling images that circulate in global visual culture.
Edited by Nicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, and Gunnar Iversen. Featuring new essays by: W.J.T. Mitchell, Boris Groys, Stefano Harney and Frank Moten, Alenka Zupančič, Meghan Sutherland, Jonathan Crary, Poulomi Saha, Alex Bush, Meir Wigoder, Peter Geimer, Leshu Torchin, Frances Guerin, Federico Windhausen, Emily Regan Wills, Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, Jared Sexton, Alexandra Juhasz, Michael B. Gillespie, Alok Vaid-Menon, Alec Butler, Danielle Peers, Asbjørn Grønstad, Akira Lippit, Mauro Resmini, Mattias Frey, Christophe Wall-Romana, Kenneth Berger, J. Hoberman, Noël Carroll, Erika Balsom, Vivian Sobchack, B Ruby Rich, Genevieve Yue, Susie Bright, Bill Nichols, Elif Kaynakci, Jan Olsson, Philipp Stiasny and Bennet Togler, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Nathan Lee, Julian Hanich, Jeffrey Sconce, Jack Halberstam, Brandy Monk-Payton, Mel Chen, Lynne Joyrich, Abigail De Kosnik, Raúl Pérez, Jen Malkowski, Katariina Kyrölä, E. Ann Kaplan, Barbara Hammer, Samuel England, and Rebecca Schneider.
You can purchase the book for 40% off using the code FILM40 at https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/unwatchable/9780813599588.
Light refreshments will be provided.
SP 201D is a barrier-free room accessed by an elevator. Service animals are welcome. Please contact laura.horak@carleton.ca by January 14 should you require ASL interpretation services or any other accommodation for this event.
