Unwatchable

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Envisioning the Unwatchable / Part I. Violence and Testimony -- 1. Theorizing the Unwatchable -- Unwatchable / The Gaze from Within / The Unwatchable and the Unwatchable / Melting into Visibility / Pro Forma / 2. Spectacles of Destruction -- Terminal Radiance / Unwatched/Unmanned: Drone Strikes and the Aesthetics of the Unseen / Breakaway / The Watchability of the Unwatchable: Television Disaster Coverage / 3. Bearing Witness -- The Incommensurable / Not Seeing Is Believing: The Unwatchable in Advocacy / Even If She Had Been a Criminal: A Past Unwatched / Deframing Evidence: A Transmission from Los ingrávidos / Alan Kurdi{u2019}s Body on the Shore / 4. Visual Regimes of Racial Violence -- Held Helpless in the Breach: On American History X / The Flash of History: On the Unwatchable in Get Out / Nothing Is Unwatchable for All / Empathy .Complicity / 5. Spectacularization and Resistance -- Entertainment Value / Holocausts, Hallowe{u2019}en, and Headdresses / Unwitnessable: Outrageous Ableist Impersonations and Unwitnessed Everyday Violence / Part II. Histories and Genres -- 6. The Tradition of Provocateurs -- The Two Unwatchables / Real Horrorshow / Asymmetries of Desire: Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom / Unstomachable: Irréversible and the Extreme Cinema Tradition / 7. Enduring the Avant-Garde -- Unwatchability by Choice: Isou{u2019}s Venom and Eternity / The Refusal of Spectacle: Debord{u2019}s Howls for Sade / Warhol{u2019}s Empire: Unwatched and Unwatchable / Warhol{u2019}s Empire / Watching Paint Dry / 8. Visceral Responses to Horror -- 2Peekaboo3: Thoughts on (Maybe Not) Seeing Two Horror Films / Why I Cannot Watch / Apotropes / 9. Pornography and the Question of Pleasure -- I Am Curious (Butterball) / At the Threshold to the Void / 10. Archives and the Disintegrating Image -- Restoring Blood Money / Turning Garbo Watchable: From Swedish Bread Bun to Hollywood Goddess / Twilight of the Dead / Part III. Spectators and Objects -- 11. Passionate Aversions -- 2Sad!3: Why I Won{u2019}t Watch Antichrist / Transforming Nihilism / Oh, Inventiveness! Oh, Imaginativeness! Precious Cinema and Its Discontents: A Rant / The Biopic Is an Affront to the Cinema / 12. Tedious Whiteness -- White Men Behaving Sadly / 2You Is Kind, You Is Smart, You Is Important3; or, Why I Can{u2019}t Watch The Help / Two Tables and a Ladder: WCGW? / 13. Reality Trumpism -- TV Trumps / The Once and Future Hillary: Why I Won{u2019}t Watch a TV Miniseries about the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election / 14. Pedagogy and Campus Politics -- Why We Can{u2019}t Take a Joke / The Bridge and Unteachable Films / Squirming in the Classroom: Fat Girl and the Ethical Value of Extreme Discomfort / 15. The Triggered Spectator -- What Is an 2Unwatchable3 Film? (With Reference to Amour and Still Alice) / Watch at Your Own Peril / Sects, Fries, and Videotape / Off Watch / Acknowledgments -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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