Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Articles Article Faculty Publications -Articles Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Visual Culture, Spectatorship and Humanitarian Disaster: Vanni Eli and the Representation of the Sri Lankan Civil War Subject The topic of the resource atrocity narratives; disaster; human rights; spectator; Sri Lanka; torture Description An account of the resource This article examines the dialogic encounter between the spectator and the spectacle in the context of war crimes and humanitarian disasters (in this context, the Sri Lankan civil war) in Vanni Eli, a short film by a Sri Lankan Tamizh diasporic filmmaker Tamiliam Subhas. The narrative introduces us not only to the military disaster that is war but also to the humanitarian disasters effected through war. The article studies the role of the spectator who 'witnesses' the torture, and thus complicates the ethics of both the act of torture and the viewing of it.By looking closely at the ingenious ways of narrating torture the article argues that the creative representation of war and disaster implicates within its discourse not merely the participants and the victims of the war alone but also the 'peripheral' subjects like the mice (the film's lead 'actors'), and by extension, the spectators participating in the discursive construction of the victimized. Despite the symbolic disembodiment and effacement of the tortured, their suffering is recognized as a humanitarian disaster with the shared grammar of suffering common to all. 2012 Mudra Institute of Communications. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nair G.J. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Journal of Creative Communications, Vol-7, No. 45689, pp. 121-134. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0973258613501064" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1177/0973258613501064</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84884808409&amp;doi=10.1177%2F0973258613501064&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=4c2d16efecea89571b6e9098a177b196" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84884808409&amp;doi=10.1177%2f0973258613501064&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=4c2d16efecea89571b6e9098a177b196</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 9732594 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Article Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Nair G.J., Christ University, Bangalore, India