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Surviving images: cinema, war, and cultural memory in the Middle East/ Kamran Rastegar.

By: Publication details: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.Description: x, 235 p. illustrationsISBN:
  • 9780199390175 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.436 53 Q5
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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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