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Visual occupations :violence and visibility in a conflict zone

Hochberg, Gil Z.,

Visual occupations :violence and visibility in a conflict zone - London : Duke University Press, 2015. - xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Perverse modernities .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-206) and index.

Visual politics at a conflict zone -- Concealment -- Visible invisibility: on ruins, erasure, and haunting -- From invisible spectators to the spectacle of terror: chronicles of a contested citizenship -- Surveillance -- The (soldier's) gaze and the (Palestinian) body: power, fantasy, and desire in the militarized contact zone -- Visual rights and the prospect of exchange: the photographic event placed under duress -- Witnessing -- "Nothing to look at"; or, "For whom are you shooting?": the imperative to witness and the menace of the global gaze -- Shooting war: on witnessing one's failure to see (on time).

9780822359012 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780822358879 (softcover : alk. paper)

2014041992


Visual communication--Political aspects--Palestine.
Arab-Israeli conflict--Mass media and the conflict.
Art and photography--Political aspects--Palestine.
Military surveillance.
Zionism.


Middle East--In mass media.
Palestine--In motion pictures.

P95.82.P19 / H62 2015

302.2095694 /HOC / 20767