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Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East
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Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East Paperback - 2015 - 1st Edition

by Rastegar, Kamran

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  • Title Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East
  • Author Rastegar, Kamran
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition Illustrated
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
  • Date 2015-04-14
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0199390177-11-1
  • ISBN 9780199390175 / 0199390177
  • Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.6 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects Memory in motion pictures, Psychic trauma in motion pictures
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014035494
  • Dewey Decimal Code 791.436

From the publisher

Surviving Images explores the prominent role of cinema in the development of cultural memory around war and conflict in colonial and postcolonial contexts. It does so through a study of three historical eras: the colonial period, the national-independence struggle, and the postcolonial. Beginning with a study of British colonial cinema on the Sudan, then exploring anti-colonial cinema in Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia, followed by case studies of films emerging from postcolonial contexts in Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, and Israel, this work aims to fill a gap in the critical literature on both Middle Eastern cinemas, and to contribute more broadly to scholarship on social trauma and cultural memory in colonial and postcolonial contexts. This work treats the concept of trauma critically, however, and posits that social trauma must be understood as a framework for producing social and political meaning out of these historical events. Social trauma thus sets out a productive process of historical interpretation, and cultural texts such as cinematic works both illuminate and contribute to this process. Through these discussions, Surviving Images illustrates cinema's productive role in contributing to the changing dynamics of cultural memory of war and social conflict in the modern world.

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  • Choice, 10/01/2015, Page 0

About the author

Kamran Rastegar is Associate Professor of Arabic Literature and Culture at Tufts University.