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  title info:
    title: Screen shots
    sub title: state violence on camera in Israel and Palestine
  name:
    name part: Stein, Rebecca L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police. Screen Shots studies this phenomenon from the vantage point of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Here, cameras have proliferated as political tools in the hands of a broad range of actors and institutions, including Palestinian activists, Israeli soldiers, Jewish settlers and human rights workers. All trained their lens on Israeli state violence, propelled by a shared dream that advances in digital photography, closer, sharper, faster, would advance their respective political agendas. Most would be let down. Drawing on ethnographic work, Rebecca L. Stein chronicles Palestinian video-activists seeking justice, Israeli soldiers laboring to perfect the military's image and Zionist conspiracy theorists accusing Palestinians of "playing dead." Writing against techno-utopianism, Stein investigates what camera dreams and disillusionment across these political divides reveal about the Israeli and Palestinian colonial present, and the shifting terms of power and struggle in the smartphone age.
  table of contents: Introduction : the dream of the perfect camera -- Sniper portraiture : militarizing personal technologies -- Cameras under curfew : infrastructures of constraint -- Settler scripts : the rise of Israeli "fake news" -- Rights on screen : curating state violence -- The military's lament : combat cameras and state fantasies -- Conclusion : broken bones, broken dreams : the affordances of failure.
  note: Rebecca L. Stein.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
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    geographic code: awba---
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  subject:
    topic: Arab-Israeli conflict
    temporal: 1993-
    topic: Photography
  subject:
    topic: Arab-Israeli conflict
    temporal: 1993-
    topic: Mass media and the conflict
  subject:
    topic: Documentary photography
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Israel
  subject:
    topic: Documentary photography
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Palestine
  subject:
    topic: Video recordings
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Israel
  subject:
    topic: Video recordings
    topic: Political aspects
    geographic: Palestine
  subject:
    topic: Political violence
    geographic: Israel
  subject:
    topic: Political violence
    geographic: Palestine
  classification: DS119.76 .S7985 2021
  classification: 956.9405/5
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
  identifier: 9781503614970
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  identifier: 2020048598
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 201030
    record change date: 20211018100913.0
    record identifier: in00004395300