Visions of Beirut

The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure

Hatim El-Hibri (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2021
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478010777 (ISBN)

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In Visions of Beirut Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images have shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut. Drawing on fieldwork and texts ranging from maps, urban plans, and aerial photographs to live television and drone-camera footage, El-Hibri traces how the technologies and media infrastructure that visualize the city are used to consolidate or destabilize regimes of power. Throughout the twentieth century, colonial, economic, and military mapping projects helped produce and govern Beirut's spaces. In the 1990s, the imagery of its post-civil war downtown reconstruction cast Beirut as a site of financial investment in ways that obscured its ongoing crises. During and following the 2006 Israel/Hizbullah war, Hizbullah's use of live television broadcasts of fighting and protests along with its construction of a war memorial museum at a former secret military bunker demonstrate the tension between visualizing space and the practices of concealment. Outlining how Beirut's urban space and public life intertwine with images and infrastructure, El-Hibri interrogates how media embody and exacerbate the region's political fault lines.

Hatim El-Hibri is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at George Mason University.

Note on Translation and Transliteration vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. The Social Life of Maps of Beirut 21
2. Images of Before/After in the Economy of Postwar Construction 64
3. Concealment, Liveness, and Al Manar TV 105
4. The Open Secret of Concealment at the Mleeta Museum 144
Conclusion 178
Notes 183
References 217
Index 247

Erscheinungsdatum	19.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	40 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781478010777 / 9781478010777
Zustand	Neuware