Tuesday, November 23, 2004, 9:23:45 AM, one spoke:
C> Can anyone suggest examples of writing on the concept of film and
C> unpleasure (what makes films unenjoyable, and why a filmmaker might
C> deliberately produce such a film)? Alternatively, any suggestions
C> of theories of visual pleasure aside from those related to feminist
C> film theory would be really helpful.
You might want to have a look at James Elkins' _The Object Stares
Back_, which spends some very uncomfortable pages looking at a series
of pictures from an execution.
Amazon link for reference only ;-> -- it's got "Search Inside" enabled
... search for "thousand parts" and follow the link to page 94:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156004976/
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Jim Flannery
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