Dear Screen-L,

Wallflower Press are pleased to announce the publication of:

The Image and The Witness
Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture

Edited by Frances Guerin and Roger Hallas 

Published in an age of persistent international terrorism and bloody conflicts in Iraq and 
Darfur, this timely collection of essays explores both the role of the material image in 
bearing witness to historical events and in visually representing eyewitnesses to 
collective trauma. With innovative research by emerging young scholars, this unique 
anthology debates issues of post-traumatic memory, documentary ethics, embodied 
vision, and the recycling of images.

The book discusses experimental films by Chris Marker (Level 5), Derek Jarman (Blue), 
Rea Tajiri (History and Memory) and Daniel Eisenberg (Cooperation of Parts), as well as 
the documentary films and photography of Errol Morris and Boris Mikhailov. Taking into 
account a wide variety of visual forms, there are also studies exploring the installation 
art of Sue Williamson and Doris Salcedo, and Gerhard Richter's paintings, as well as 
images from popular culture, including magazines, websites and home movies. Providing 
various historical and theoretical approaches, the book not only provides new 
perspectives on well-known works but also presents fascinating research on areas new to 
English-language scholarship, including Swiss documentary filmmaker Richard Dindo, 
Armenian genocide websites and Catalan Holocaust photography.

About the Editors

Frances Guerin is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent, and the author of A 
Culture of Light (2005).

Roger Hallas is Assistant Professor of English at Syracuse University.

To find out more, please visit www.wallflowerpress.co.uk

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