Acknowledgments
Introduction: Spectacle and Its Other
1. From Latent to Live: Disaster Photography after the Digital
Turn
2. Origins of Affect: The Falling Body and Other Symptoms of
Cinema
3. Remembering-Images: Empty Cities, Machinic Vision, and the
Post-9/11 Imaginary
4. Lights, Camera, Iconoclasm: How Do Monuments Die and Live to
Tell about It?
5. The Failure of the Failure of Images: The Crisis of the
Unrepresentable from the Graphic Novel to the 9/11 Memorial
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Winner, NEPCA Rollins Book Award
Thomas Stubblefield is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
"9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster is an extraordinarily
brilliant academic book which has explored the 'absence of image'
not only in the US media but also how it shaped the arts and
culture in the post-9/11. 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster
will change how we think about disasters and tragedies. The book is
a must-read for both students and practitioners of media
studies."—Repository
"Thomas Stubblefield has written a concise, engaging, and
thought-provoking work that asks the reader to reassess their
knowledge and relationship to that moment and the resulting milieu
of post 9/11 life in America."—ARLIS/NA Reviews
"Recommended."—Choice
"This is a must-read for those interested in visual imagery;
indeed, parts of 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster expand our
thinking in promising ways. Scholars in the area of visual culture
and visual rhetoric will find Stubblefield's book particularly
useful in broadening the discussion of what is not present in media
images and what they tell us about what is present."—NEPCA
"The book's emphasis on the erased and the invisible—and the
intrinsic role these play in shaping collective memory and
political ideologies—provides an important contribution to memory
and visual culture studies, as well as to a broader analysis of
9/11, how that event has been written into history, and continues
to be deployed as an operating force."—Journal of American
History
"9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster . . . adds a fresh and
insightful view on how 9/11 is perceived in American society—the
day that 'refuses to enter history,' the tragedy that 'has,
ineffect, not yet passed' (188). The book is a captivating account
that can be recommended to those interested in US cultural
studies,visual analysis, as well aslm, photography, and graphic
novels to comprehend how they help their audience realize the
tragedy of 9/11from different perspectives."—Journal of Popular
Culture
"How can artworks elicit effective collective action? For a long
time, contemporary art has been celebrated for its deployment of
emptiness and absence as political strategies. Thomas Stubblefield
convincingly demonstrates that this discourse doesn't work any
more, and that deferring to participants to 'complete' the work has
also become a lazy artistic strategy. In close examinations of the
production and reception of monuments to disaster, he stirringly
argues that discourses of participation and therapy supplant
collective action and prepare people, once again, to receive the
rhetoric of war."—Laura Marks, author of Enfoldment and Infinity:
An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art
"An engaging book with challenging things to say about post-9/11
artistic strategies, the subjectivity of viewers, and the
representational paradoxes at the heart of 9/11 art."—Jeffrey
Melnick, author of 9/11 Culture
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