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Volume 11, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 2042-7824
  • E-ISSN: 2042-7832

Abstract

Through reconstructing the crime scene, undermines the omniscient power of the forensic gaze and problematizes the relationship between the image and haptic spectatorship. While eliminating the spectacle and affect, the camera intensely lingers on characters’ facial image to engage viewers in the voyeurism of an absent scene of violence.

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • National Science Centre, Poland, under the project ‘Lost highways, forgotten travels: The road movie in the post-war American avant-garde and experimental film through the lens of women and men filmmakers’ (Award UMO-2018/31/D/HS2/01553)
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Keyword(s): crime scene; Echo; facial image; forensic gaze; Magnus von Horn; voyeurism
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