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The Visual Divide between Islam and the West = Image Perception within Cross-Cultural Contexts /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Visual Divide between Islam and the West/ by Hatem N. Akil.
Reminder of title:	Image Perception within Cross-Cultural Contexts /
Author:	Akil, Hatem N.
Description:	XVIII, 232 p. 15 illus., 12 illus. in color.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Communication. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56582-2
ISBN:	9781137565822

The Visual Divide between Islam and the West = Image Perception within Cross-Cultural Contexts /
Akil, Hatem N.

The Visual Divide between Islam and the WestImage Perception within Cross-Cultural Contexts /[electronic resource] :by Hatem N. Akil. - 1st ed. 2016. - XVIII, 232 p. 15 illus., 12 illus. in color.online resource.

.List of Figures -- .Introduction -- .Chapter One: Technologies of Seeing -- .Chapter Two: The Sound of the Revolution -- .Chapter Three: Colonial Gaze--Native Bodies -- .Chapter Four: The Boy Who Was Killed Twice -- .Chapter Five: The Martyr Takes a Selfie -- .Chapter Six: Cinematic Terrorism -- .Endnotes -- .References.

This book considers the ways in which Muslims view the way they are being viewed, not viewed, or incorrectly viewed, by the West. The book underscores a certain “will-to-visibility” whereby Muslims/ Arabs wish just to be “seen” and to be marked as fellow human beings. The author relates the failure to achieve this visibility to a state of desperation that inextricably and symmetrically ties visibility to violence. When Syrian and Palestinian refugees recently started refusing to be photographed, they clearly ushered the eventual but inevitable collapse of the image and its final futility. The photograph has been completely emptied of its last remaining possibility of signification. The book attempts to engage with questions about the ways in which images are perceived within cross cultural contexts. Why and how do people from different cultural backgrounds view the same image in opposing ways; why do cartoon, photographs, and videos become both the cause and target of bloody political violence – as witnessed recently by the deadly attacks against Charlie Hebdo in France and in the swift military response by the US, Jordan, France, and others to videotaped violence by ISIS.

ISBN: 9781137565822

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-56582-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

556422
Communication.

LC Class. No.: P87-96

Dewey Class. No.: 302.23

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