Introduction
From voyeurism to visual politics. Do not look at y/our own peril: voyeurism as ethical necessity, or to see as a child again / Mark Ledbetter
Associates in crime and guilt / Frank Muller
Painful photographs: from the ethics of spectatorship to visual politics / Mark Reinhardt
Looking in, looking away. The violence of the documentary image: Errol Morris's standard operating procedure / Stefano Odorico
Visual irruptions, mediated suffering, and the Robert Dziekanski tragedy: an inquiry into the efficacy of the image / Tara H. Milbrandt
Tuning out, turning in, and walking off: the film spectator in pain / Mattias Frey
Performances. Imaging pain / Mieke Bal
The unsettling moment: on Mathilde Ter Heijne's Suicide trilogy / Øyvind Vågnes
Gulag follies / Jody McAuliffe
Mimetic and mnemonic frames. Imag(in)ing painful pasts: mimetic and poetic style in war films / Holger Putzsch
The sanctified Fallen: the war film as witness / Tonje H. Sorensen
Medical horror: visual documents from the history of lobotomy / Jon-Ove Steihaug.