The Image and the Witness

Notes on Contributors vii Introduction 1(22) Frances Guerin Roger Hallas PART I THE BODY OF THE WITNESS Portraits of Presence: Excavating Traumatic Identity in Contemporary Catalan Testimonies 23(14) Camila Loew Sound, Image and the Corporeal Implication of Witnessing in Derek Jarman's Blue 37(15) Roger Hallas Symbolic Bodies, Real Pain: Post-Soviet History, Boris Mikhailov and the Impasse of Documentary Photography 52(17) Matthias Christen PART II TESTIMONIAL INTERACTIVITY Re-collecting the Collective: Mediatised Memory and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission 69(13) Stephanie Marlin-curiel Since We Forgot: Remembrance and Recognition of the Armenian Genocide in Virtual Archives 82(16) Leshu Torchin False Witness: Combat Entertainment and Citizen Training in the United States 98(15) Karen J. Hall PART III SECOND HAND VISIONS The Grey Space Between: Gerhard Richter's 18. Oktober 1977 113(16) Frances Guerin A Game That Must Be Lost: Chris Marker Replays Alain Resnais' Hiroshima mon amour 129(14) Jonathan Kear The Domestic Vision of Vietnam Home Movies 143(16) Guy Westwell PART IV TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISPLACEMENTS Constructing the Image of Postmemory 159(14) Tina Wasserman Haunting Absences: Witnessing Loss in Doris Salcedo's Atrabilarios and Beyond 173(16) Edlie L. Wong Picturing Ruinscapes: The Aerial Photograph as Image of Historical Trauma 189(18) Davide Deriu PART V WITNESSING THE WITNESS Not Looking at Lynching Photographs 207(16) James Polchin Here and Then: The Act of Remembering in Richard Dindo's Documentaries 223(15) Marcy Goldberg Megatronic Memories: Errol Morris and the Politics of Witnessing 238(15) Devin Orgeron Marsha Orgeron Index 253