Moving Images: Modes of Representations and Images of Victimhood in Audio-Visual Productions

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Abstract

This chapter is an analysis of how audio-visual representations of the work of international criminal tribunals create narratives around victims. It highlights one important aspect of those narratives: they do not merely reflect and represent, they also create. More specifically, victims and victimhood are not pre-given categories, but are instead constituted via acts of representation, including audio-visual ones. Viewing this material through the lens of a typology of modes of representation in documentary film theory, this chapter argues that audio-visual productions have created different types of victims. Whereas advocacy documentaries have produced ‘ideal’ victims, critical documentaries ‘argumentative victims’, and observatory documentaries ‘translated victims’, audio-visual materials produced by the International Criminal Court itself have presented ‘bureaucratized victims’.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law
EditorsSarah Nouwen, Fred Megret, Jon Kevin Heller, Jens Ohlin
PublisherOxford University press
Chapter25
Pages583–598
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9780191863837
ISBN (Print)9780198825203
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Feb 2020

Publication series

NameOxford Handbooks

Bibliographical note

Working title: Moving Images: Documentary Film and Audiovisual Promotion of the ICC

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