Visual Occupations - Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone

Informationen zum Autor Gil Z. Hochberg Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. 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

Product details

• Authors: Gil Z Hochberg, Gil Z. Hochberg, Gil Z./ Halberstam Hochberg
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9780822359012
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5901-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities; Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe; Perverse Modernities: A Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous