Killing for Culture Killing for Culture

Killing for Culture

From Edison to ISIS

    • $20.99
    • $20.99

Publisher Description

Unlike images of sex, which were clandestine and screened only in private, images of death were made public from the onset of cinema. The father of the modern age, Thomas Edison, fed the appetite for this material with staged executions on film. Little over a century later the executions are real and the world is aghast at brutalities freely available online at the click of a button. Some of these films are created by lone individuals using shaky camera phones: Luka Magnotta, for instance, and the teenagers known as the Dnipropetrovsk maniacs. Others are shot on high definition equipment and professionally edited by organized groups, such as the militant extremists ISIS. KILLING FOR CULTURE explores these images of death and violence, and the human obsession with looking — and not looking — at them. Beginning with the mythology of the so-called ‘snuff’ film and its evolution through popular culture, this book traces death and the artifice of death in the ‘mondo’ documentaries that emerged in the 1960s, and later the faux snuff pornography that found an audience through Necrobabes and similar websites. However, it is when videos depicting the murders of Daniel Pearl and Nick Berg surfaced in the 2000s that an era of genuine atrocity commenced, one that has irrevocably changed the way in which we function as a society.

GENRE
Arts & Entertainment
RELEASED
2016
July 29
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
1,218
Pages
PUBLISHER
Headpress
SELLER
ABP INC SCB Distributors Inc.
SIZE
29.5
MB
For One Week Only For One Week Only
2011
Going to Pieces Going to Pieces
2011
The Film Appreciation Book The Film Appreciation Book
2014
Film After Film Film After Film
2012
Cinema Detours Cinema Detours
2013
Zombie Movies: Second Edition Zombie Movies: Second Edition
2012
Mezzogiorno Mezzogiorno
2012
Killing For Culture Killing For Culture
2020
Killing For Culture Killing For Culture
2020