Kate Winslet, magazine - photoshopped models creating wrong impression 'perfect human', unattainable by every day people.
Whereas representation tries to absorb simulation by
interpreting it as false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice
of representation as itself a simulacrum.
These would be the succesive phases of the image:
It is the reflection of a basic reality.
It masks and perverts a basic reality.
It masks the absence of a basic reality.
It bears no relation to any reality whatever : it is its own
pure simulacrum.
Ken Jarecke, Iraqi
Soldier, 1991
Most of the reporting that reached American audience and the
west in general emanated from the Pentagon, total blackout on the magnitude of
the devastation and death on the Iraqi side. A statement of the number of dead centred
around 100,000 thousands soldiers and 15,000 civilians sufficed for mainstream
media audience. Made for TV war started
at 6:30pm EST on January 16, 1991, coinciding with National News. The American
audience today cannot distinguish between computer war games and real war,
between news and entertainment
Censoring:
A
person authorised to examine films, letters, or publications, in order to ban
or cut anything considered obscene or objectionable
To
ban or cut portions of (a film, letter or publication
Questionable nude child photos - child pornography? Art? Photography? Definition of censorship is
universally different
Censorship plays a large role in films, games and animation and I think it is important to be aware of the criticisms, drawbacks, strengths, weaknesses and benefits of censorship and to be knowledgable and aware of it; a lack of understanding in this area could make on insensitive to multi-cultural understandings and the workings of societies outside your own.
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