Susan Sontag Audio & Video

First published in 1973, this is a study of the force of photographic images, which are continually inserted between experience and reality....

Susan Sontag takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity and once again changes the way we think about the uses and meanings of images in our world....

A conversation among visionaries about images in science that have changed the way we view ourselves, at a conference organized by science photographer Felice Frankel.

Promised Lands is famed writer and critic Susan Sontag's sole documentary project (and her third directorial effort), shot in Israel on the fly in the final days and immediate aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

Literary icon Susan Sontag gives a lecture on pornography at 92nd Street Y on November 2, 1964. Titled "On Classical Pornography," Sontag discusses the differences between how elicit materials are perceived around the world at a time in America when pornography was referred to as "smut."

Writer Susan Sontag talks about the ideas in her 1978 book Illness as Metaphor in this interview with Studs Terkel.

In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time".

This romance, set in 18th-century Naples, follows the fortunes of a British ambassador, the ravishing woman he marries, and the young British admiral with whom she falls in love....

This free video includes a three hour interview with the late author & activist Susan Sontag. She answers questions about politics, movies, and the many nonfiction & fiction books she has written throughout her career.

A remembrance of Susan Sontag, one of America's leading public intellectuals with a look at her appearances on the show over the years.