Hochberg Visual Occupations

Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7551-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Reihe: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe

Gil Z. Hochberg examines films, photography, painting and literature by Israeli and Palestinian artists. Israel's greater ability to control what can be seen, how, and from what position drives the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The artists Hochberg studies challenge Israel's visual and social dominance by creating new ways to see the conflict.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hochberg, Gil Z.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Visual Politics at a Conflict Zone 1

Part I. Concealment

1. Visible Invisibility: On Ruins, Erasure, and Haunting 37

2. From Invisible Spectators to the Spectacle of Terror: Chronicles of a Contested Citizenship 57

Part II. Surveillance

3. The (Soldier's) Gaze and the (Palestinian) Body: Power, Fantasy, and Desire in the Militarized Contact Zone 79

4. Visual Rights and the Prospect of Exchange: The Photographic Event Placed under Duress 97

Part III. Witnessing

5. "Nothing to Look At"; or, "For Whom Are You Shooting?": The Imperative to Witness and the Menace of the Global Gaze 115

6. Shooting War: On Witnessing One's Failure to See (on Time) 139

Closing Words 163

Notes 167

Bibliography 187

Index 207

Über Autor(innen)

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