Visual culture in the modern Middle East : rhetoric of the image / edited by Christiane Gruber and Sune Haugbolle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gruber, Christiane J., 1976-

Haugbolle, Sune, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society--Middle East--Congresses.

Art and society.

Visual communication--Middle East--Congresses.

Visual communication.

Arts, Modern--20th century--Congresses.

Arts, Modern.

Popular culture--Middle East--Congresses.

Popular culture.

Middle East.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 343 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]

Summary:

This timely book examines the power and role of the image in modern Middle Eastern societies. The essays explore the role and function of image making to highlight the ways in which the images "speak" and what visual languages mean for the construction of Islamic subjectivities, the distribution of power, and the formation of identity and belonging. Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East addresses aspects of the visual in the Islamic world, including the presentation of Islam on television; on the internet and other digital media; in banners, posters, murals, and graffiti; and in the satirical press, cartoons, and children's books. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I. "Moving" images

Images of the Prophet Muhammad in and out of modernity : the curious case of a 2008 mural in Tehran / Christiane Gruber

Secular domesticities, Shiite modernities : Khomeini's illustrated Tawzih al-Masail / Pamela Karimi

Memory and ideology : images of Saladin in Syria and Iraq / Stefan Heidemann

"You will (not) be able to take your eyes off it!" : mass-mediated images and politico-ethical reform in the Egyptian Islamic revival / Patricia Kubala

Part 2. Islamist iconographies

The Muslim "crying boy" in Turkey : aestheticization and politicization of suffering in Islamic imagination / Özlem Sava

The new happy child in Islamic picture books in Turkey / Umut Azak

Sadrabiliyya : the visual narrative of Muqtada al-Sadr's Islamist politics and insurgency in Iraq / Ibrahim Al-Marashi

The martyr's fading body : propaganda vs. beautification in the Tehran cityscape / Ulrich Marzolph

Part 3. Satirical contestations

Pushing out Islam : cartoons of the reform period in Turkey (1923-1930) / Yasemin Gencer

Blasphemy or critique? : secularists and Islamists in Turkish cartoon images / John VanderLippe and Pinar Batur

Naji al-Ali and the iconography of Arab secularism / Sune Haugbolle

Part 4. Authenticity and reality in trans-national broadcasting

Arab television drama production and the Islamic public sphere / Christa Salamandra

Saudi-Islamist rhetorics about visual culture / Marwan Kraidy.

Notes:

"The contributions were first presented at the April 2009 conference "Rhetoric of the Image: Visual Culture in Political Islam, " held in Magleaas, Denmark"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-320) and index.

ISBN:

9780253008848

0253008840

9780253008886

0253008883

OCLC:

793571887

Publisher Number:

99954703080