Surviving images : cinema, war and cultural memory in the Middle East
Kamran Rastegar, Oxford University Press (Publisher)
Surviving Images explores the prominent role of cinema in the development of cultural memory around war and conflict in colonial and postcolonial contexts.
Print Book, English, cop. 2015
Oxford University Press, Oxford [etc.], cop. 2015
X, [2], 235 s. : il. ; 25 cm.
9780199390168, 9780199390182, 9780199390175, 0199390169, 0199390185, 0199390177
1005156368
Introduction ; Chapter 1. Productive traumas: Cinema, social conflict, cultural memory ; Chapter 2. Colonialism, memory, masculinity: The Four Feathers and the redemption of empire ; Chapter 3. Freedom, then silence: Memory and the women of Egyptian and Tunisian independence ; Chapter 4. The time that is lost: Cinematic aporias of Palestine ; Chapter 5. Sacred defenses: Treacherous memory in post-war Iran ; Chapter 6. Wanting to see: Wartime witnessing and post-war haunting in Lebanese cinema ; Chapter 7. "Sawwaru Waynkum" Human rights and perpetrator traumas in Waltz with Bashir ; Conclusion. Multitudinous memory: Revolutions and post-cinematic cultural memory