Sovereign Intimacy (eBook)

Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence

Laliv Melamed (Autor)

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2023
312 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39031-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In the early 1990s, Israeli television began dedicating Memorial Day airtime to videos produced by the grieving families of soldiers killed in the line of duty. When these videos first appeared, during a period of growing Israeli discontent with the occupation of southern Lebanon, they were widely perceived as a challenge to the state, reclaiming the dead from Israel’s militaristic memory culture by resituating them in intimate domestic contexts via mediated commemorations.

By tracing an emerging media system of freelance filmmaking, privatized television, state institutes of care, and grassroots campaigns, Laliv Melamed reveals how these videos nevertheless avoid a fundamental critique of Israeli militarism, which is instead invited into the familiar space of the home. These intimate connections of memory and media exploit bonds of kinship and reshape larger relationships between the state and its citizens, enabling a collective disavowal of colonial violence. In Sovereign Intimacy, Melamed offers a poignant and critical view of the weaponization of home media and mourning in service of the neoliberal settler state.

Inhalt

Contents

Prologue. “OUR SONS” 
A Note on Sources 
Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

PART ONE. SOVEREIGNTY

1. To Keep in Touch 
2. Intimate Proxies 
3. Scheduled Memories, Programmed Mourning 

PART TWO. INTIMACY 

4. Figures of Speech 
5. At Face Value 
Epilogue. Answering a Call 

Notes 
Filmography 
Bibliography 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Breaking the Silence • broadcast • Cultural Memory • documentaries • Family • family mourning • home movies • israeli defense force • Israeli media practices • memorial videos • Militarism • personal memories • Politics • state television programming • Zionist memory making
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39031-8 / 0520390318
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39031-7 / 9780520390317