Visual culture in the modern Middle East : rhetoric of the image /

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This book examines the power and role of the image in modern Middle Eastern societies. The essays explore the role and function of image making to highlight the ways in which the images "speak" and what visual languages mean for the construction of Islamic subjectivities, the distribution...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gruber, Christiane J., 1976-, Haugbolle, Sune, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Temas:
1900-1999
Art and society > Middle East > Congresses.
Visual communication > Middle East > Congresses.
Arts, Modern > 20th century > Congresses.
Popular culture > Middle East > Congresses.
Arts > 20e siècle > Congrès.
ART > Performance.
ART > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Art and society
Arts, Modern
Popular culture
Visual communication
Middle East
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. "Moving" images. Images of the Prophet Muhammad in and out of modernity : the curious case of a 2008 mural in Tehran / Christiane Gruber
  • Secular domesticities, Shiite modernities : Khomeini's illustrated Tawzih al-Masail / Pamela Karimi
  • Memory and ideology : images of Saladin in Syria and Iraq / Stefan Heidemann
  • "You will (not) be able to take your eyes off it!" : mass-mediated images and politico-ethical reform in the Egyptian Islamic revival / Patricia Kubala
  • Part 2. Islamist iconographies. The Muslim "crying boy" in Turkey : aestheticization and politicization of suffering in Islamic imagination / Ozlem Sava
  • The new happy child in Islamic picture books in Turkey / Umut Azak
  • Sadrabiliyya : the visual narrative of Muqtada al-Sadr's Islamist politics and insurgency in Iraq / Ibrahim Al-Marashi
  • The martyr's fading body : propaganda vs. beautification in the Tehran cityscape / Ulrich Marzolph
  • Part 3. Satirical contestations. Pushing out Islam : cartoons of the reform period in Turkey (1923-1930) / Yasemin Gencer
  • Blasphemy or critique? : secularists and Islamists in Turkish cartoon images / John VanderLippe and Pinar Batur
  • Naji al-Ali and the iconography of Arab secularism / Sune Haugbolle
  • Part 4. Authenticity and reality in trans-national broadcasting. Arab television drama production and the Islamic public sphere / Christa Salamandra
  • Saudi-Islamist rhetorics about visual culture / Marwan Kraidy.

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