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Surviving images cinema, war, and cultural memory in the Middle East

Title
Surviving images [electronic resource] : cinema, war, and cultural memory in the Middle East / Kamran Rastegar.
Author
Rastegar, Kamran.
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

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Description
1 online resource (x, 235 pages) : illustrations.
Uniform Title
Surviving images (Online)
Alternative Title
Surviving images (Online)
Subject
  • Memory in motion pictures
  • Psychic trauma in motion pictures
  • War films > Middle East > History and criticism
  • Middle East > In motion pictures
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index.
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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.
LCCN
2014035494
OCLC
ssj0001423748
Author
Rastegar, Kamran.
Title
Surviving images [electronic resource] : cinema, war, and cultural memory in the Middle East / Kamran Rastegar.
Imprint
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-227) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available onsite at NYPL
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