Introduction Rex Butler (Monash University, Australia) and David Denny (Marylhurst University, USA) 1. Impunity - Reflections on the 1965 Massacre in Indonesia and its Legacy Benedict Anderson (Rochester University, USA) 2. Kidnapping all but One John Roosa (University of British Columbia, Canada) 3. Suharto's Regime Jeffrey Winters (Northwestern University, USA) 4. Abuses of Human Rights and Censorship in Contemporary Indonesia Prodita Sabarini (editor of The Conversation, Australia) 5. Sexual Politics in Oppenheimer's Films Tunggal Pawestri (writer for Jakarta Post, Indonesia) 6. Reflecting on The Act of Killing Martin Aleida (Journalist, Indonesia) 7. On The Act of Killing and the Modern Trend of Privatising Public Space Slavoj Žižek (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) 8. The Ethics of Making and Looking at The Act of Killing Robert Sinnerbrink (University of New South Wales, Australia) 9. Ethics in The Look of Silence Matthew Abbott (Federation University, Victoria, Australia) 10. Participatory Documentary Ecology Hilary Neroni (University of Vermont, USA) 11. Psychoanalytic Aspects of Witnessing Violence and Death Steven Miller (Buffalo University, USA) 12. Mise-en-abyme, like Hamlet Rex Butler (Monash University, Australia) 13. The New Documentary Form David Denny (Marylhurst University, USA) Interview - Joshua Oppenheimer Bibliography Index

A collection of multi-disciplinary essays that analyses the formal, historical, ethical, and political significance of Joshua Oppenheimer’s ground-breaking documentary films The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence.