Violence and Visibility in Modern History

Chapter 1 Violence and Visibility: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

Chapter 2 Torture By Any Other Name: Prelude to Guantanamo

Chapter 3 The Visibility of Torture in Nineteenth-Century Case Study Collections

Chapter 4 Changing Representations of Scandalous Murders in the United States

Chapter 5 The Power of Indifference: Violence, Visibility, and Invisibility in the New York City Race Riot of 1900

Chapter 6 Violence, Visibility, and the Investigation of Police Torture in the American South, 1940–1955

Chapter 7 The “Vicarious Play” of Lynching Melodramas: Cinema and Mob Violence in the United States, 1895–1905

Chapter 8 Picturing Exclusion: Race, Honor, and Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany before the Second World War

Chapter 9 Life and Death in Peep Boxes: Bringing the Civil War to the American Home

Chapter 11 Making Photographs Historic: The Use of Historical Black-and-White Stills in NBC’s Fictional Miniseries Holocaust

Chapter 12 Shiny Happy Warfare? New York Victory Parades and the (In)Visibility of Violence

Chapter 13 Violence and Historical Reenactment: From the American Civil War to the Moore’s Ford Lynching