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Forgetting Lot's wife : on destructive spectatorship

By Martin , Harries

Book information

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780823241026, 0823241025, 9780823247387, 0823247384
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15775414 bytes)
Edition
1st ed.
Pages
155\177
Time added
2015-05-17 16:06:57
Influence Psychology Violence Suffering Audiences

Description

Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot?s Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history all lead back to the story of Lot?s wife: looking back at the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, she turns into a pillar of salt. This biblical story of punishment and transformation, a nexus of sexuality, sight, and cities, becomes the template for the modern fear that looking back at dis  Read more...

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