Sovereign Intimacy
Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence
$47.38
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
20 April 2023
Summary
In the early 1990s, Israeli television began dedicating Memorial Day airtime to videos produced by the grieving families of soldiers killed in the line of duty. When these videos first appeared, during a period of growing Israeli discontent with the occupation of southern Lebanon, they were widely perceived as a challenge to the state, reclaiming the dead from Israel’s militaristic memory culture by resituating them in intimate domestic contexts via mediated commemorations.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520390294 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520390296 |
| Author: | Laliv Melamed |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 20 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“A much-welcome intervention… . Melamed’s work earnestly reckons with the urgent need to account for the haunting presence of Palestine in Israeli media practices to interrogate the visuality of Israel’s ever-growing colonial violence.” * Film Quarterly *
Laliv Melamed
Laliv Melamed is Assistant Professor of Film and Media at the University of Groningen.
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