Visual divide between islam and the west : image perception within cross-cultural contexts /: image perception within cross-cultural contexts. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Hatem Akil.
• Authors: Akil, Hatem N
• Contents: Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Technologies of Seeing; Imagined Enemies; Blue-Eyed Jesus; The Visual Divide; Seeing Is Not Believing; Believing Is Seeing; Who Perceives Whom?; The Critical Eye; Will to Visibility; Chapter 3: The Sound of the Revolution; Chapter 4: Colonial Gaze: Native Bodies; The Photograph; Orientalism; The Postcard; Resistance of the Veil; Postcards from the Colonies; Scenes and Types; Casualties of War; Staged Reality; Simulacra; The Colonialist as the Natural Subject of the Photograph. Chapter 5: The Boy Who Was Killed TwiceFalse Dichotomies, True Prophets?; Silence of the Bombs; The Borderless War of Pure Terror; Larry's Last Perversion; This Is the War that Never Ends; The Consistent but Predictable Aberration of the Other; To See or Not to See, That Is the Question; Pure Culture; Chapter 6: The Martyr Takes a Selfie; Terrorism: Body and Vision; The Muslim at Auschwitz; Jewish Kebab in Baghdad; The Untestifiable Martyrdom of Thicklips; But Whose Blood Is It, Anyway?; Smoke, Dreams, and Psychotherapy; Chapter 7: Cinematic Terrorism; Proposition 1: Cinematic Terrorism. Have We Seen This Flick Before?Proposition 2: Indiscernibility Is the Main Theme of ISIS Films; Proposition 3: The Time-Image Doesn't Move Mountains; Time Ruptures; Proposition 4: Is ISIS Resistance?; Proposition 5: ISIS Is Not a Freak Sideshow. It Is Just Another Part of the Main Event; Proposition 6: Horror Is the Symptom of a Failed World; Caliph de Sade; Theatre of Cruelty; Burning Man Mimesis; Proposition 7: Plato's Cave: The Powers of the False-How Do We Know We're Not ISIS?; Diderot in Reverse; Proposition 8: The Forger's Delirium: Delirium Is the State of Contemporary Consciousness.
• Publisher Details: New York, New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 301; Culture -- Study and teaching; Ethnology -- Middle East; Communication; Cultural property; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General; Communication; Cultural property; Culture -- Study and teaching; Ethnology; Study skills; Social Science -- General; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Communication Studies; Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural; Cultural studies; Communication studies; Cultural heritage; Social Science -- Media Studies; Media studies; United States -- Study and teaching; Middle East; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137565822; 1137565829
• Related ISBNs: 1137569646; 9781137569646
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.