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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]Description: x, 235 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199390168 (cloth)
  • 9780199390175 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/653 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.M455 R38 2015
Online resources:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Oman Library General Collection PN1995.9 .M455 R38 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 30347000002166

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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