Visual occupations : violence and visibility in a conflict zone / Gil Z. Hochberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hochberg, Gil Z., 1969-

Series:

Perverse modernities.

Perverse modernities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual communication--Political aspects--Palestine.

Visual communication.

Arab-Israeli conflict--Mass media and the conflict.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Art and photography--Political aspects--Palestine.

Art and photography.

Military surveillance.

Zionism.

Middle East--In mass media.

Middle East.

Palestine--In motion pictures.

Palestine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Duke University Press : Durham ; London, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>Gil Z. Hochberg is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies at UCLA. She is the author of <I>In Spite of Partition: Jews, Arabs and the Limits of Separatist Imagination</I>.<BR></div>

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).

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822358879

0822358875

OCLC:

899275496