Death's Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy
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An interdisciplinary exploration of the visual presence of death in contemporary culture.
AcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction: On the Work of Death in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction2Ch. 2[Death's] Display Showcase: Walter Benjamin10Ch. 3The [Aesthetic] Distance: Benjamin and Heidegger34Ch. 4The [Spectator's] Place: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun48Ch. 5The [Blind] Gesture: Hiroshima76Ch. 6[Critical] Image90Ch. 7The [Simulated] City: Jerusalem118Ch. 8The Floodlit Arena [of Murder]: Yitzhak Rabin130Ch. 9Save As Jerusalems180Ch. 10The Picture [of the Battlefield]218Ch. 11[Art] Museum266References288Index296
