| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 234 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
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Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
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Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the dream of the perfect camera -- Sniper portraiture : militarizing personal technologies -- Cameras under curfew : infrastructures of constraint -- Settler scripts : the rise of Israeli "fake news" -- Rights on screen : curating state violence -- The military's lament : combat cameras and state fantasies -- Conclusion : broken bones, broken dreams : the affordances of failure. |
| Summary |
"In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police. Screen Shots studies this phenomenon from the vantage point of Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Here, cameras have proliferated as political tools in the hands of a broad range of actors and institutions, including Palestinian activists, Israeli soldiers, Jewish settlers, and human rights workers. All trained their lens on Israeli state violence, propelled by a shared dream: that advances in digital photography-closer, sharper, faster-would advance their respective political agendas. Most would be let down. Drawing on ethnographic work, Rebecca L. Stein chronicles Palestinian video-activists seeking justice, Israeli soldiers laboring to perfect the military's image, and Zionist conspiracy theorists accusing Palestinians of "playing dead." Writing against techno-utopianism, Stein investigates what camera dreams and disillusionment across these political divides reveal about the Israeli and Palestinian colonial present, and the shifting terms of power and struggle in the smartphone age"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993- -- Photography.
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Arab-Israeli conflict. |
| Chronological Term |
1993- |
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Photography. |
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Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993- -- Mass media and the conflict.
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Documentary photography -- Political aspects -- Israel.
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Documentary photography. |
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Israel. |
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Documentary photography -- Political aspects -- Palestine.
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Video recordings -- Political aspects -- Israel.
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Video recordings -- Political aspects. |
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Video recordings. |
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Video recordings -- Political aspects -- Palestine.
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Political violence -- Israel.
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Political violence. |
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Political violence -- Palestine.
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Arab-Israeli conflict -- Mass media and the conflict. |
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Middle East -- Palestine. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1993 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Stein, Rebecca L. Screen shots. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021 9781503614970 (DLC) 2020048598 |
| ISBN |
9781503628038 (electronic book) |
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1503628035 (electronic book) |
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9781503614970 (hardcover) |
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9781503628021 (paperback) |
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