Rastegar, Kamran
Surviving images : cinema, war, and cultural memory in the Middle East - USA : Oxford University Press , 2015 . - x, 235 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index.
Introduction -- Productive traumas: cinema, social conflict, cultural memory -- Colonialism, memory, masculinity: The four feathers and the redemption of empire -- Freedom, then silence: memory and the women of Egyptian and Tunisian independence -- The time that is lost: cinematic aporias of Palestine -- Sacred defenses: treacherous memory in post-war Iran -- Wanting to see: wartime witnessing and post-war haunting in Lebanese cinema -- "Sawwaru waynkum?" human rights and perpetrator traumas in Waltz with Bashir -- Conclusion. Multitudinous memory: revolutions and post-cinematic cultural memory.
9780199390168 (cloth) 9780199390175 (pbk.)
2014035494
Memory in motion pictures
Psychic trauma in motion pictures
War films--History and criticism
Middle East--In motion pictures
PN1995.9.M455 / R38 2015
791.436
Surviving images : cinema, war, and cultural memory in the Middle East - USA : Oxford University Press , 2015 . - x, 235 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index.
Introduction -- Productive traumas: cinema, social conflict, cultural memory -- Colonialism, memory, masculinity: The four feathers and the redemption of empire -- Freedom, then silence: memory and the women of Egyptian and Tunisian independence -- The time that is lost: cinematic aporias of Palestine -- Sacred defenses: treacherous memory in post-war Iran -- Wanting to see: wartime witnessing and post-war haunting in Lebanese cinema -- "Sawwaru waynkum?" human rights and perpetrator traumas in Waltz with Bashir -- Conclusion. Multitudinous memory: revolutions and post-cinematic cultural memory.
9780199390168 (cloth) 9780199390175 (pbk.)
2014035494
Memory in motion pictures
Psychic trauma in motion pictures
War films--History and criticism
Middle East--In motion pictures
PN1995.9.M455 / R38 2015
791.436