Aaron Kerner

A sweeping survey of how global filmmakers have treated the subject of the Holocaust.

New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Films

Film and the Holocaust

This work brings together art history, film studies, cultural studies, and psychoanalysis into a thoughtful explanation of the ways in which catastrophe figures into a variety of cultural and artistic practices. It raises important and timely questions about representation, national identity, colonialism, and ethics.

Coming to Terms with "unimaginable" Suffering and "incomprehensible" Horror in Visual Culture

Representing the Catastrophic

Julian Hoxter

This book explores the stupid as it manifests in media—the cinema, television and streamed content, and videogames. The stupid is theorized not as a pejorative term but to address media that “fails” to conform to established narrative conventions, often surfacing at evolutionary moments. The Transformers franchise is often dismissed as being stupid because its stylistic vernacular privileges kinetic qualities over conventional narration. Similarly, the stupid is often present in genre fails like mother!, or in instances of narrative dissonance—joyously in Adventure Time; more controversially in Gone Home— where a story “feels off” It also manifests in “ludonarrative dissonance” when gameplay and narrative seemingly run counter to one another in videogames like Undertale and Bioshock. This book is addressed to those interested in media that is quirky, spectacle-driven, or generally hard to place—stupid!

Aaron Kerner

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