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1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrations
Introduction: controversy and the crisis of the image / Feona Attwood, Vincent Campbell, I.Q. Hunter, & Sharon Lockyer -- Controversy and representation. Media-bodies and Photoshop / Meredith Jones -- Representation and resemblance in the case of the Danish cartoons / Catherine Collins & David Douglass -- Imitation and controversy: performing (trans)sexuality in Post-Communist Bulgaria / Plamena Kourtova -- X-ray visions: photography, propaganda and Guantanamo Bay / Bruce Bennett -- Constructing controversies. "The terrorists with highlights": Kurdish female suicide bombers in mainstream Turkish media / Ertug Altinay -- Constructing effects: disturbing images and the news construction of "media influence" in the Virginia Tech shootings / Jeremy Collins -- Border patrol: Trevor Brown, aesthetics and the protection of fictitious children / Adam Stapleton -- "The following content is not acceptable" / Julian Petley -- Ethics and aesthetics in controversial media -- Cutting edge: violence and body horror in anime / Caroline Ruddell -- "It's gonna hurt a little bit, but that's okay it makes my cock feel good": Max Hardcore and the myth of pleasure / Stephen Maddison -- The lexicon of offense: the meanings of torture, porn, and "torture porn" / Steve Jones -- The beast within: materiality, ethics and animal porn / Susanna Paasonen -- Engaging with controversial images. Embracing rape: understanding the attractions of exploitation movies / Martin Barker -- His soul shatters at about 0:23: Spankwire, self-scaring and hyberbolic shock / Julia Kennedy, and Clarissa Smith -- playing with controversial images in videogames: the terrorist mission controversy in "Call of duty: modern warfare 2" -- Vincent Campbell -- "A bad taste business": tv journalists reflect on the limits of news images / Paul Brighton.
Includes bibliographical references and index.