TY - BOOK ID - 19143068 TI - 9/11 and the visual culture of disaster PY - 2014 SN - 9780253015495 9780253015563 0253015499 0253015561 PB - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Emptiness (Philosophy). KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in art. KW - September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001, in mass media. KW - Influence. KW - Emptiness (Philosophy) KW - 11 septembre 2001, Attentats du (États-Unis) KW - Vide (philosophie) KW - Influence KW - Dans les médias KW - Dans l'art KW - Dans les médias. KW - Dans l'art. KW - 11 septembre 2001, Attentats du (États-Unis) KW - Dans les médias. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:19143068 AB - "The day the towers fell, indelible images of plummeting rubble, fire, and falling bodies were imprinted in the memories of people around the world. Images that were caught in the media loop after the disaster and coverage of the attack, its aftermath, and the wars that followed reflected a pervasive tendency to treat these tragic events as spectacle. Though the collapse of the World Trade Center was "the most photographed disaster in history," it failed to yield a single noteworthy image of carnage. Thomas Stubblefield argues that the absence within these spectacular images is the paradox of 9/11 visual culture, which foregrounds the visual experience as it obscures the event in absence, erasure, and invisibility. From the spectral presence of the Tribute in Light to Art Spiegelman's nearly blank New Yorker cover, and from the elimination of the Twin Towers from television shows and films to the monumental cavities of Michael Arad's 9/11 memorial, the void became the visual shorthand for the incident. By examining configurations of invisibility and erasure across the media of photography, film, monuments, graphic novels, and digital representation, Stubblefield interprets the post-9/11 presence of absence as the reaffirmation of national identity that implicitly laid the groundwork for the impending invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan." -- Publisher's description. ER -