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Cinema of the Dark SiDe
atrocity and the ethics of film Spectatorship
Shohini Chaudhuri
Cinema of the Dark Side
Atrocity and the Ethics of Film Spectatorship
Shohini Chaudhuri
© Shohini Chaudhuri, 2014
Edinburgh University Press Ltd
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The right of Shohini Chaudhuri to be identified as author of
this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright,
Designs and Patents Act 1988 and the Copyright and Related
Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498).
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
1 Documenting the Dark Side: Fictional and Documentary
Treatments of Torture and the ‘War On Terror’
2 History Lessons: What Audiences (Could) Learn about Genocide
from Historical Dramas
3 The Art of Disappearance: Remembering Political Violence in
Argentina and Chile
4 Uninvited Visitors: Immigration, Detention and Deportation in
Science Fiction
5 Architectures of Enmity: the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict through a
Cinematic Lens
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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Acknowledgements
M
y heartfelt thanks go to those who generously offered help, encourage-
ment and lively dialogue by reading draft chapters: Ruth Blakeley, John
Cant, Matthew Carter, Sabine El Chamaa, Nina Fischer, Fabian Freyenhagen,
Jeffrey Geiger, Catherine Grant, Joanne Harwood, John Masterson, Éadaoin
O’Brien, Colin Samson, Marina Warner and Hugh Whitby. A number of
other people I talked to about this project have also inspired my choices and
approach, among them Michele Aaron, Sanja Bahun, Eamonn Carrabine,
Hydar Dewachi, Carlos Gigoux, John Haynes, John Horne, Clive Johnson, Jay
Prosser, Vera Svihalkova and John Wrathall.
Thanks to my local Amnesty group in London, particularly Hugh Whitby,
who got me involved in the first place, and Deepa Shah, our group chair. I owe
a great deal to Dick Blackwell, who set up the Centre for Psychotherapy and
Human Rights (CPHR) to combine therapy for survivors of political violence
with research into the causes and contexts of that violence. The ideas in this
book evolved with my work with both Amnesty and CPHR. An early version
of Chapter 3 was presented as a public lecture jointly convened by CPHR and
the Institute of Group Analysis in London in 2012.
While writing the book, I have drawn constant inspiration from my stu-
dents, my colleagues and the interdisciplinary environment at the University
of Essex, including its Human Rights Centre. In particular, I would like to
acknowledge students on my third-year module Cultural Ideology and Film
and the MA in Refugee Care, who have helped me to develop these ideas
further through their response to some of this material. Also many thanks to
Lyndsey Stonebridge (University of East Anglia) and Les Back (Goldsmiths)
for launching Humanities in Human Rights, a skills exchange programme
funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, which offered an
engaged forum in which to present ideas from this book’s Introduction.
The research was supported by two terms of study leave granted by the

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