Creating the witness : documenting genocide on film, video, and the Internet / Leshu Torchin.
Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000 lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is Dying learn this sobering fact and more as they work to ensure the survival of a virtual refugee camp. The video game not only puts players in the position of a struggli...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction: screen media and witnessing publics -- To acquaint America with ravished Armenia -- Witness for the prosecution: films at Nuremberg -- Reflections on the world stage: imagining fields of witnessing for Rwanda and the Balkans -- The work of WITNESS: negotiating the challenges of video advocacy -- iWitnesses and citizentube: focus on Darfur -- Conclusion: testimonial encounters and tempering the celebratory narrative. | |
| 520 | |a Since the beginning of the conflict in 2003, more than 300,000 lives have been lost in Darfur. Players of the video game Darfur Is Dying learn this sobering fact and more as they work to ensure the survival of a virtual refugee camp. The video game not only puts players in the position of a struggling refugee, it shows them how they can take action in the real world. Creating the Witness examines the role of film and the Internet in creating virtual witnesses to genocide over the last one hundred years. The book asks, how do visual media work to produce witnesses-au. | ||
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