Affective Images : Post-apartheid Documentary Perspectives /

Affective Images examines both canonical and lesser-known photographs and films that address the struggle against apartheid and the new struggles that came into being in post-apartheid times. Marietta Kesting argues for a way of embodied seeing and complements this with feminist and queer film studi...

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Main Author: Kesting, Marietta (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Mapping context and place
  • Affective images. Photographs of black suffering and violence
  • Affective images in the "new" South Africa
  • Burning questions. The "Burning man"
  • The afterlife of Nhamuave's photograph
  • Photographic speech acts. Migrant life and the image
  • Documentary participatory photography and politics
  • In/visibilities and reenactments. De-identification and multiplication. From documentary to fiction and back: District 9
  • Conclusion: affective images of belonging.