Moving Images: Modes of Representations and Images of Victimhood in Audio-Visual Productions

Autor: Stolk, S., Werner, W.G.
Přispěvatelé: Nouwen, Sarah, Megret, Fred, Heller, Jon Kevin, Ohlin, Jens
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Zdroj: Stolk, S & Werner, W G 2020, Moving Images: Modes of Representations and Images of Victimhood in Audio-Visual Productions . in S Nouwen, F Megret, J K Heller & J Ohlin (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law . Oxford Handbooks, Oxford University press, pp. 583–598 . https://doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198825203.003.0026
Popis: This chapter is an analysis of how audio-visual representations of the work of international criminal tribunals create narratives around victims. It highlights one important aspect of those narratives: they do not merely reflect and represent, they also create. More specifically, victims and victimhood are not pre-given categories, but are instead constituted via acts of representation, including audio-visual ones. Viewing this material through the lens of a typology of modes of representation in documentary film theory, this chapter argues that audio-visual productions have created different types of victims. Whereas advocacy documentaries have produced ‘ideal’ victims, critical documentaries ‘argumentative victims’, and observatory documentaries ‘translated victims’, audio-visual materials produced by the International Criminal Court itself have presented ‘bureaucratized victims’.
Databáze: OpenAIRE