ARHS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Voyeurism, Falkland Islands, Vietnam Syndrome
19 Nov 2016
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Body count: a cultural examination of mediated war and depictions of death in visual culture. Images: jake and dinos chapman zygotic acceleration, biogenetic de- sublimated libidinal model, 1995 and francisco goya"s disasters of war, 1810) Romero used the site of an american shopping mall to formulate his critique of consumer culture. Dawn of the dead became a midnight favorite at shopping malls theatres. The film"s popularity surmises that the movie-going consumers were reveling in the demise of the very culture they appear most enthusiastically to support. Constructed in the nostalgic image of a clean and safe town center -convergence of the store window with the cinema screen. According to jean baudrillard (1929 2007), the television news reports on the gulf. War were mediated in such a way as to seem unreal". Hyper reality and the term real" has been hijacked and turned into an empty advertising slogan, claiming authenticity. Zizek believes we have lost the capacity to access the real".
