| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 230 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Death, Image, Memory -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Irrelevance of Images -- The Relevance of Images -- Organization of the Book -- Genocide -- History and Context -- International Involvement -- The Aftermath -- Justice and Memory -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Image, Evidence, Memory -- Missing the Story? -- Images of Genocide -- Lights, Camera...Camps -- Genocide as Fiction -- Documentary and Genocide -- In Need of Evidence? -- Death, Trauma and Memory -- Documentary Film -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Images of After: Gilles Peress and Sebastião Salgado -- Seeing Death -- Photographing Atrocity: Document, Art, Commodity -- The Silence -- Peress's Corpses -- Salgado and Migrations -- The Problem of Beauty -- Photographing the Camps -- Permission or Acceptance? -- Bodies and Machines -- Conclusion: Latency As An Excuse? -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Images of Before: Personal Archives and the Kigali Genocide Memorial -- Rwanda's Memorials -- Politics, History and Commemoration -- Rwanda's Bones -- Kigali Genocide Memorial -- The Permanent Exhibition -- The Portraits -- The Photographs' Journeys -- Memorial Contexts and the 'Museum Effect' -- What Remains? -- Looking and Not Knowing: Two Wedding Photographs -- Identification -- Haunted Objects? -- Conclusion: Familiar Evidence and the Right to Withhold -- Notes -- Chapter 4: 'Who Filmed This?'-Iseta: Behind the Roadblock (2008) -- From Still to Moving -- Genocide and the Documentary Archive -- Filming the Killings -- Zapruder Film, Pellicule Maudite or Neither? -- In Search of Meaning -- Iseta: Behind the Roadblock -- Taming the Past -- The Gikondo Footage -- Concrete Outcomes? -- Conclusion: The Ethics of Knowing -- Notes -- Chapter 5: 'I Remember Them'-Keepers of Memory (2004) -- Words Over Images? -- Film and Survivors -- A Short History of Post-Genocide Rwandan Film |
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Film and Genocide in Rwanda -- Rwanda Film Festival and Reception of Genocide Films -- Testimonial Space -- Testimonial Burden -- Looking and Listening -- Past and Present Speak to Each Other -- Testimonial Challenges -- Conclusion: Filmmaker as Witness? -- Notes -- Conclusion: In Defence of Images? -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Interviews -- Websites -- Index |
| Summary |
This book explores how photography and documentary film have participated in the representation of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda and its aftermath. This in-depth analysis of professional and amateur photography and the work of Rwandan and international filmmakers offers an insight into not only the unique ability of images to engage with death, memory and the need for evidence, but also their helplessness and inadequacy when confronted with the enormity of the event. Focusing on a range of films and photographs, the book tests notions of truth, evidence, record and witnessing - so often associated with documentary practice - in the specific context of Rwanda and the wider representational framework of African conflict and suffering. Death, Image, Memory is an inquiry into the multiple memorial and evidentiary functions of images that transcends the usual investigations into whether photography and documentary film can reliably attest to the o ccurrence and truth of an event |
| Notes |
Available through EbscoHost |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-218) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 17, 2022) |
| Subject |
Genocide in art.
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Genocide in motion pictures.
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Documentary films.
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Genocide -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Genocide
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Documentary films
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Genocide in art
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Genocide in motion pictures
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Rwanda
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9781137579881 |
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1137579889 |
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