{"product_id":"cinema-of-the-dark-side-9780748642632","title":"Cinema of the Dark Side","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA few days after 9\/11, US Vice-President Dick Cheney invoked the need for the USA to work ''the dark side'' in its global ''War on Terror''. In \u003cem\u003eCinema of the Dark Side\u003c\/em\u003e, Shohini Chaudhuri explores how contemporary cinema treats state-sponsored atrocity, evoking multiple landscapes of state terror. She investigates the ethical potential of cinematic atrocity images, arguing that while films help to create and confirm normative perceptions about atrocities, they can also disrupt those perceptions and build different ones. Asserting a crucial distinction between morality and ethics, the book proposes a new conceptualisation of human rights cinema that repositions human rights morality within an ethical framework that reflects upon the causes and contexts of violence. It builds upon theories of embodied spectatorship to explore how films can implicate us in histories that may appear to be distant and unrelated to us, and how they draw connections between past and present patterns of oppression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book covers a diverse spectrum of 21st century cinema dealing with documentary or fictional representations of atrocity such as state-sanctioned torture, genocide, enforced disappearance, deportation, and apartheid, including \u003cem\u003eZero Dark Thirty \u003c\/em\u003e(2012), \u003cem\u003eStandard Operating Procedure\u003c\/em\u003e (2008), \u003cem\u003eHotel Rwanda\u003c\/em\u003e (2004), \u003cem\u003eSometimes in April \u003c\/em\u003e(2005), \u003cem\u003eNostalgia for the Light\u003c\/em\u003e (2010), \u003cem\u003eChronicle of an Escape\u003c\/em\u003e (2006), \u003cem\u003eChildren of Men \u003c\/em\u003e(2006), \u003cem\u003eDistrict 9\u003c\/em\u003e (2009), \u003cem\u003eWaltz With Bashir \u003c\/em\u003e(2008), and \u003cem\u003eParadise Now \u003c\/em\u003e(2005). \u003cem\u003eCinema of the Dark Side\u003c\/em\u003e provides readers with fresh insights into how we respond to atrocity images and the ethical issues at stake.","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404496838999,"sku":"9780748642632","price":85.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780748642632.jpg?v=1730486640","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cinema-of-the-dark-side-9780748642632","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}