Marie-José Mondzain, Can the image kill?
Disciplines
Review
French
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it is at the heart of a burning debate — that of the impact of TV images on their audience — that Marie-José Mondzain proposes to think about the presupposed myths associated with this type of image. What are the factors which suggest that the image may motivate behaviour through what it shows, a magical significance attributed to something without its own will? The West has an ambiguous relationship with images used by the authorities in turn, but...