Violence and Visibility in Modern History

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Violence and Visibility: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives....Pages 1-23
Torture By Any Other Name: Prelude to Guantanamo....Pages 25-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
The Visibility of Torture in Nineteenth-Century Case Study Collections....Pages 45-56
Changing Representations of Scandalous Murders in the United States....Pages 57-72
The Power of Indifference: Violence, Visibility, and Invisibility in the New York City Race Riot of 1900....Pages 73-90
Violence, Visibility, and the Investigation of Police Torture in the American South, 1940–1955....Pages 91-111
The “Vicarious Play” of Lynching Melodramas: Cinema and Mob Violence in the United States, 1895–1905....Pages 113-135
Picturing Exclusion: Race, Honor, and Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany before the Second World War....Pages 137-155
Front Matter....Pages 157-157
Life and Death in Peep Boxes: Bringing the Civil War to the American Home....Pages 159-179
Images of Violence in Wehrmacht Soldiers’ Private Photo Albums....Pages 181-197
Making Photographs Historic: The Use of Historical Black-and-White Stills in NBC’s Fictional Miniseries Holocaust....Pages 199-221
Shiny Happy Warfare? New York Victory Parades and the (In)Visibility of Violence....Pages 223-240
Violence and Historical Reenactment: From the American Civil War to the Moore’s Ford Lynching....Pages 241-261
Back Matter....Pages 263-305