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31 Outubro 2019, 18:00 • Ana Cristina Ferreira Mendes

Mediation of violence: violent images and images of violence. Reality or the spectacularization of reality (the truth-value of images). Violence as ‘the standard operating procedure of visuality’ (Mirzoeff 2011).  Audiences, voyeurism, and the fascination with violence.

Reading assignments:

•Hills, Matt. 2018. “Audiences.” In:  Kackman, Michael, and Mary Celeste Kearney, eds. 2018. The Craft of Criticism: Critical Media Studies in Practice. New York: Routledge. 183–194.

Supplementary reading:

•hooks, bell. 1990. “Marginality as a Site of Resistance.” Out There: Marginality and Contemporary Cultures. Ed. Russell Ferguson et al. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 341– 344. •hooks, bell. 1992. “The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators.” Black Looks: Race and Representation. Boston: South End Press. 115-131.