Surviving images : cinema, war, and cultural memory in the Middle East
By: Rastegar, Kamran
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BookPublisher: USA : Oxford University Press , 2015Description: x, 235 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780199390168 (cloth); 9780199390175 (pbk.).Subject(s): Memory in motion pictures | Psychic trauma in motion pictures | War films -- History and criticism | Middle East -- In motion picturesDDC classification: 791.436 Online resources: Book review (H-Net) | Book review (H-Net)
Contents:
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.
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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.
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