SOURCE: Lester, Paul. Review of Regarding the Pain of Others, by Susan Sontag. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 58, no. 4 (winter 2004): 392-94.

In the following review, Lester compares and contrasts Regarding the Pain of Others with Brian Goldfarb's Visual Pedagogy: Media Cultures in and beyond the Classroom.

All images that display the violation of an attractive body are, to a certain degree, pornographic.

—Susan Sontag in Regarding the Pain of Others, p. 95

I do not mean to downplay the radical potential of programs that engage students in the visual, the popular, or the technical means of media production.

—Brian Goldfarb in Visual Pedagogy, p. 7

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