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This edited volume traces cultural appearances of disgust and investigates the varied forms and functions disgust takes and is given in both established and vernacular cultural practices. Contributors focus on the socio-cultural creation, consumption, reception, and experience of disgust, a visceral emotion whose cultural situatedness and circulation has historically been overlooked in academic scholarship. Chapters challenge and supplement the biological understanding of disgust as a danger reaction and as a base emotion evoked by the lower senses, touch, taste and smell, through a wealth of original case studies in which disgust is analyzed in its aesthetic qualities, and in its cultural and artistic appearances and uses, featuring visual and aural media. Because it is interdisciplinary, the book will be of interest to scholars in a wide range of fields, including visual studies, philosophy, aesthetics, sociology, history, literature, and musicology.

Aversion. --- Abhorrence --- Antipathy --- Disgust --- Dislike --- Disrelish --- Distaste --- Loathing --- Repugnance --- Emotions

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An exploration of the character and evolution of disgust and the role this emotion plays in our social and moral lives.

General ethics --- Aversion. --- Emotions. --- Feelings --- Human emotions --- Passions --- Abhorrence --- Antipathy --- Disgust --- Dislike --- Disrelish --- Distaste --- Loathing --- Repugnance --- Psychology --- Affect (Psychology) --- Affective neuroscience --- Apathy --- Pathognomy --- Emotions --- Aversion --- PHILOSOPHY/General --- COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology --- COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General

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"We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory-affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to incendiary artworks that provoke mass boycotts, many of the images in our media culture strike as beyond the pale of consumption. Yet what does it mean to proclaim a media object "unwatchable": disturbing, revolting, poor, tedious, or literally inaccessible? Appealing to a broad academic and general readership, Unwatchable offers multidisciplinary approaches to the vast array of troubling images that circulate in our global visual culture, from cinema, television, and video games through museums and classrooms to laptops, smart phones, and social media platforms. This anthology assembles 60 original essays by scholars, theorists, critics, archivists, curators, artists, and filmmakers who offer their own responses to the broadly suggestive question: What do you find unwatchable? The diverse answers include iconoclastic artworks that have been hidden from view, dystopian images from the political sphere, horror movies, TV advertisements, classic films, and recent award-winners"--

Aversion --- Mass media --- Visual communication --- Mass media and the arts --- Image (Philosophy) --- Representation (Philosophy) --- Visual perception --- media --- massamedia --- visuele communicatie --- film --- televisie --- internet --- kunst --- kunsttheorie --- receptie-esthetica --- psychologie --- waarneming --- 7.01 --- Optics, Psychological --- Vision --- Perception --- Visual discrimination --- Arts and mass media --- Arts --- Graphic communication --- Imaginal communication --- Pictorial communication --- Communication --- Abhorrence --- Antipathy --- Disgust --- Dislike --- Disrelish --- Distaste --- Loathing --- Repugnance --- Emotions --- Representationalism (Philosophy) --- Representationism (Philosophy) --- Culture --- Philosophy --- Psychological aspects --- PERFORMING ARTS / General. --- VISUAL COMMUNICATION --- REPRESENTATION (PHILOSOPHY) --- VISUAL PERCEPTION --- ART --- PHILOSOPHY --- PSYCHOLOGY --- Visual Communication --- Visual Perception --- Art --- Psychology --- Representation (philosophy)