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Stubblefield, Thomas. 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2014. 
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-0-253-01549-5
BibTeX citation key: Stubblefield2014
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Keywords: "In the Shadow of No Towers", 9/11, Spiegelman. Art, USA, Visual Culture
Creators: Stubblefield
Publisher: Indiana Univ. Press (Bloomington)		 Views: 14/1042
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Abstract
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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments (ix)

Introduction: Spectacle and Its Other (2)
1. From Latent to Live: Disaster Photography after the Digital Turn (26)
2. Origins of Affect: The Falling Body and Other Symptoms of Cinema (54)
3. Remembering-Images: Empty Cities, Machinic Vision, and the Post-9/11 Imaginary (86)
4. Lights, Camera, Iconoclasm: How Do Monuments Die and Live to Tell about It? (124)
5. The Failure of the Failure of Images: The Crisis of the Unrepresentable from the Graphic Novel to the 9/11 Memorial (152)
Conclusion: Disaster(s) without Content (180)

Notes (189)
Bibliography (217)
Index (229)


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