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1 online resource (pages cm) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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"The contributions were first presented at the April 2009 conference "Rhetoric of the Image: Visual Culture in Political Islam," held in Magleaas, Denmark"--Acknowledgements. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 -- Muslim "crying boy" in Turkey : aestheticization and politicization of suffering in Islamic imagination / Ozlem Sava -- 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 -- 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. |
| 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 sa. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art and society -- Middle East -- Congresses.
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Art and society. |
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Middle East. |
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Visual communication -- Middle East -- Congresses.
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Visual communication. |
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Arts, Modern -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Arts, Modern. |
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20th century |
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Popular culture -- Middle East -- Congresses.
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Popular culture. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Gruber, Christiane J., 1976-
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Haugbolle, Sune, 1976-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Visual culture in the modern Middle East 9780253008848 (DLC) 2013016444 (OCoLC)793571887 |
| ISBN |
9780253008947 electronic book |
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0253008948 electronic book |
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1299680135 electronic book |
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9781299680135 electronic book |
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9780253008848 |
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0253008840 |
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9780253008886 |
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0253008883 |
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