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).
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.