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Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image

By Christiane Gruber , Sune Haugbolle

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
0253008840, 9780253008848
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9679022 bytes)
Pages
376\392
Time added
2015-07-06 19:48:45

Description

This timely 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 of power, and the formation of identity and belonging. Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East addresses aspects of the visual in the Islamic world, including the presentation of Islam on television; on the internet and other digital media; in banners, posters, murals, and graffiti; and in the satirical press, cartoons, and children’s books.

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