RT Book
T1 Screen shots: state violence on camera in Israel and Palestine
T2 Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
A1 Stein, Rebecca L. 1969-
LA English
PP Stanford, California
PB Stanford University Press
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1738371166
AB 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.
AB "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"--
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 193-226
CN DS119.76
SN 978-1-5036-1497-0
SN 978-1-5036-2802-1
K1 Arab-Israeli conflict : 1993- : Photography
K1 Arab-Israeli conflict : 1993- : Mass media and the conflict
K1 Documentary photography : Political aspects : Israel
K1 Documentary photography : Political aspects : Palestine
K1 Video recordings : Political aspects : Israel
K1 Video recordings : Political aspects : Palestine
K1 Political Violence : Israel
K1 Political Violence : Palestine