Regarding the Pain of Others By Susan Sontag, Alice Mcdermott ISBN: 9780312422196 ASIN: B00A2LR5AK ASIN: B007C47W3A Published: 2004 Number of Pages: 131 Edition: 1st Binding: Paperback

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Picador Description: 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.

Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number: 2002192527

International Standard Book Number: 0312422199: 0312422199 (alk. paper): 0312422199 (pbk.): 0374248583 (hc : alk. paper): 9780312422196 (alk. paper)

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: HM554
   - Item number: .S65 2003
   - Item number: .S65 2003b

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 21
   - Classification number: 303.6

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Sontag, Susan,
   - Dates associated with a name: 1933-2004
   - Dates associated with a name: 1933-2004.

Title Statement
   - Title: Regarding the pain of others /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Susan Sontag.

Edition Statement: 1st ed.: 1st Picador ed.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Picador,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2003.
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2004, c2003.

Physical Description
   - Extent: 131 p. :
   - Extent: 131 p. ;
   - Other physical details: port.
   - Dimensions: 21 cm.
   - Dimensions: 22 cm.

Summary, etc.: Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock? In this investigation of the role of imagery in our culture, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she 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 Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001. Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Atrocities.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Photojournalism
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Violence.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: War and society.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: War in art
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: War photography
   - General subdivision: Social aspects.