Sovereign Intimacy : Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melamed, Laliv.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bereavement--Political aspects--Israel--20th century.

Bereavement.

Social media--Israel--20th century.

Social media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 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. By tracing an emerging media system of freelance filmmaking, privatized television, state institutes of care, and grassroots campaigns, Laliv Melamed reveals how these videos nevertheless avoid a fundamental critique of Israeli militarism, which is instead invited into the familiar space of the home. These intimate connections of memory and media exploit bonds of kinship and reshape larger relationships between the state and its citizens, enabling a collective disavowal of colonial violence. In Sovereign Intimacy, Melamed offers a poignant and critical view of the weaponization of home media and mourning in service of the neoliberal settler state.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue. “OUR SONS”

A Note on Sources

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One. Sovereignty

Part Two. Intimacy

Epilogue. Answering a Call

Notes

Filmography

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520390317

0520390318

OCLC:

1348102760