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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rastegar, Kamran (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Memory in motion pictures.
Psychic trauma in motion pictures.
Middle East > In motion pictures.
War films > Middle East > History and criticism.
Table of 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.