9780312422196-0312422199-Regarding the Pain of Others

Regarding the Pain of Others

ISBN-13: 9780312422196
ISBN-10: 0312422199
Edition: First PB Edition, First Printing
Author: Susan Sontag
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: Picador
Format: Paperback 131 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780312422196
ISBN-10: 0312422199
Edition: First PB Edition, First Printing
Author: Susan Sontag
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: Picador
Format: Paperback 131 pages

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Regarding the Pain of Others (ISBN-13: 9780312422196 and ISBN-10: 0312422199), written by authors Susan Sontag, was published by Picador in 2004. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Communication & Media Studies (Social Sciences, Violence in Society) books. You can easily purchase or rent Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Communication & Media Studies books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.05.

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Twenty-five years after her classic On Photography, Susan Sontag returns to the subject of visual representations of war and violence in our culture today.

How does the spectacle of the sufferings of others (via television or newsprint) affect us? Are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the depiction of cruelty? In Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and the Nazi death camps, to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Israel and Palestine, and New York City on September 11, 2001.

In Regarding the Pain of Others Susan Sontag once again changes the way we think about the uses and meanings of images in our world, and offers an important reflection about how war itself is waged (and understood) in our time.

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