ISBN:
9781838602727
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9781838602741
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9780755637454
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9781838602710
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1838602712
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9781838602734
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
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illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also published in print
Year of publication:
2021
Parallel Title:
ebook version
DDC:
302.23409
Keywords:
Be-tselem (Organization : Jerusalem) Archives
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Video recordings
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Video recordings
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Video surveillance
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Video surveillance
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Video recordings Political aspects
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Arab-Israeli conflict Sources
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Arab-Israeli conflict Mass media and the conflict 1993-
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Photography & photographs
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Palestine Politics and government 21st century
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Israel Politics and government 21st century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Foreword -- Introduction: Foundations of Filming -- Camera as a Way to be Seen -- Camera as Exposer -- Camera as Shamer -- Camera as Mirror -- Camera as Shield -- Camera as Martyr -- Camera as Evidence -- Camera as Weapon -- Endnotes -- Sources -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Index
Abstract:
"Drawing on unprecedented access to the video archives of B'Tselem, an Israeli NGO that distributes cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, Liat Berdugo lays out an argument for a visual studies approach to videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine. Using video stills as core material, it discusses the politics of videographic evidence in Israel/Palestine by demonstrating that the conflict is one that has produced an inequality of visual rights. The book highlights visual surveillance and counter surveillance at the citizen level, how Palestinians originally filmed to ?shoot back? at Israelis, who were armed with shooting power via weapons as the occupying force. It also traces how Israeli private citizens began filming back at Palestinians with their own cameras, including personal cell phone cameras, thus creating a simultaneous, echoing counter surveillance. Complicating the notion that visual evidence alone can secure justice, the Weaponized Camera in The Middle East asks how what is seen, but also who is seeing, affects how conflicts are visually recorded. Drawing on over 5,000 hours of footage, only a fraction of which is easily accessible to the public domain, this book offers a unique perspective on the strategies and battlegrounds of the Israel/Palestine conflict."--
Note:
Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
DOI:
10.5040/9781838602727
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