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** On behalf of Dylan Hester <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> ** How film and media inspire a response to genocide as an international crime CREATING THE WITNESS: Documenting Genocide on Film, Video, and the Internet By Leshu Torchin University of Minnesota Press | 280 pages | 2012 ISBN 978-0-8166-7623-1 | paperback | $25.00 ISBN 978-0-8166-7622-4 | cloth | $75.00 Series: Visible Evidence, Vol. 26 Creating the Witness examines the role of film and the Internet in creating virtual witnesses to genocide over the past one hundred years. Leshu 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, ultimately calling on viewers to act on behalf of human rights. PRAISE FOR CREATING THE WITNESS: "Stunning, urgent, forceful, and necessary, Creating the Witness exorcises the ghostly and ghastly representations of genocide and pushes them beyond the graveyards and the archives of trauma. This magnificent, grounded, and rigorously researched book boldly probes a century of imaging genocides in Armenia, Germany, Rwanda, the Balkans, the Philippines, the United States, and Darfur across photography, documentary, popular culture narrative films, user-generated media, and gaming. Leshu Torchin guts how we see and think about genocide: no longer spectres or spectacles, those images of the dead from across the globe animate dynamic ethical engagements, converting horrified reactions into collective action." —Patricia R. Zimmermann, author of States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Leshu Torchin is lecturer in film studies at the University of St. Andrews. For more information, including the table of contents, visit the book's webpage: http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/creating-the-witness http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/series/visible-evidence Please email me if you have any questions. Anne Wrenn University of Minnesota Press 111 3rd Ave S, Ste. 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> -- Dylan Hester Marketing Assistant ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Einar Thorsen, PhD Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Communication The Media School, Bournemouth University Talbot Campus, Poole, BH12 5BB, UK E-mail: [log in to unmask]<applewebdata:[log in to unmask]> Twitter: http://twitter.com/einarthorsen Blog: http://journalismstudies.info/ Phone: +44 (0)1202 968838 Convenor Journalism Research Group: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/imcr/cjcr/ Programme Coordinator MA Journalism and New Media: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/courses/MAJNMF Communication Officer of MeCCSA: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ [http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/Images/QueensAwardLogo.jpg] BU is a Disability Two Ticks Employer and has signed up to the Mindful Employer charter. Information about the accessibility of University buildings can be found on the BU DisabledGo webpages<http://www.disabledgo.com/en/org/bournemouth-university> This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email. -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. Membership is open to all who teach and research these subjects in HE institutions, via either institutional or individual membership. The field includes film and TV production, journalism, radio, photography, creative writing, publishing, interactive media and the web; and it includes higher education for media practice as well as for media studies. This mailing list is a free service from MeCCSA and is not restricted to members. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------