Learning How to Fall

Beginning with Richard Drew's controversial photograph of a man falling from the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, Learning How to Fall investigates the changing relationship between world events and their subsequent documentation.-
By presenting engaging and diverse case studies from both the art world and popular culture - including Aliza Shvarts's censored senior thesis at Yale University, Kerry Skarbakka's provocative photographs of falling, Didier Morelli's crawl through Toronto, and Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom --Learning How to Fall creates a new understanding of the relationship between the event and its documentation, where even the truth of an event might be called into question.

T. Nikki Cesare Schotzko is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at the University of Toronto.

Epigraph Dedication List of Illustrations Additional Citations Acknowledgments Preface Always Ever Falling Introduction The Economy of the Event Chapter One If Not Falling Then Flying: Richard Drew's Falling Man and The Politics of Witnessing Chapter Two The Untruth of Style: From Abramovi- to Bradshaw and Back Again Chapter Three Not Yet Finished, Never Yet Begun: Aliza Shvarts, the Girl from West Virginia, and the Consequence of Doubt Chapter Four Speaking Truth to Stupid: Aaron Sorkin's Episode "5/1" and the Reassignment of Truth Chapter Five How Time Flies: A Chronometry of the Fall Afterword Afterword, After Phelan: Notes on Love, for My Students Index