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Creating the Witness: Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet

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Description for Creating the Witness: Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet Paperback. Series: Visible Evidence. Num Pages: 296 pages, 21 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: AFKV; HBTZ; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 17. Weight in Grams: 344.

Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000 lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is Dying learn this sobering fact and more as they work to ensure the survival of a virtual refugee camp. The video game not only puts players in the position of a struggling refugee, it shows them how they can take action in the real world.

Creating the Witness examines the role of film and the Internet in creating virtual witnesses to genocide over the last one hundred years. The book asks, how do visual media work to ... Read more

From a historical and comparative approach, Torchin’s broad survey of media and the social practices around it investigates the development of popular understandings of genocide to achieve recognition and response—both political and judicial—ultimately calling on viewers to act on behalf of human rights.




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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Visible Evidence
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816676231
SKU
V9780816676231
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99-1

About Leshu Torchin
Leshu Torchin is lecturer in film studies at the University of St. Andrews.

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