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Visual occupations :violence and visibility in a conflict zone

By: Hochberg, Gil ZMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: London : Duke University Press, 2015Description: xi, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text ISBN: 9780822359012 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780822358879 (softcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): 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 picturesDDC classification: 302.2095694 /HOC LOC classification: P95.82.P19 | H62 2015
Contents:
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).
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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).

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