Podcast: Thomas Stubblefield discusses 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster

September 09, 2014

Podcast: Thomas Stubblefield discusses 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster

With the annivesary of 9/11 coming up this Thursday, we took some time to speak with Thomas Stubblefield about his upcoming book 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster. Though the collapse of the World Trade Center was “the most photographed disaster in history,” it failed to yield a single noteworthy image of carnage. On this episode of the IU Press podcast, Thomas Stubblefield talks about how the absence within these spectacular images is the paradox of 9/11 visual culture, which foregrounds the visual experience as it obscures the event in absence, erasure, and invisibility.

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Sep 9, 2014 10:10:00 AM | Cultural Studies, Film, Media Studies, Podcasts

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