New publication: Franca Buss and Philipp Müller: Hin- und Wegsehen
3 March 2020
Images of violence in various forms permeate almost all areas of life. Their emergence cannot only be attributed to their effects but also to potentially all media users' appetite for media reception. The present volume is devoted to this complicated relationship between mediatized violence and media users, which seems to be characterized by two basic forces in particular: those of attraction and repulsion. Within this balance of power, media users are faced with a dilemma when confronted with images of violence under the pressure of moral and aesthetic self-assessment: should they look at them (hinsehen) or should they rather look away (wegsehen)?
These questions are addressed in the volume »Hin- und Wegsehen« by Philipp Müller and Franca Buss, which was recently published by De Gruyter as the first volume of the new series »Imaginarien der Kraft«:
Philipp Müller and Franca Buss (eds.): Hin- und Wegsehen. Formen und Kräfte von Gewaltbildern. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020. 347 pages. ISBN: 978-3-11-064379-4.