The Visual Divide Between Islam and the West: Image Perception Within Cross-cultural Contexts - Couverture rigide

Akil, Hatem N.

 
9781137569646: The Visual Divide Between Islam and the West: Image Perception Within Cross-cultural Contexts
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ISBN 10 : 1137569646 ISBN 13 : 9781137569646
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Synopsis

This book aims at addressing the question of how do Muslims view the way they are being viewed, not viewed, or incorrectly viewed by the West? The book inquires about a possible "will-to-visibility" that drives and divides the representation of Muslims in Western media from the desire of the Muslim/Arab to be "seen" and to register as a human life. Hatem N. Akil attributes this failure to a "delirious crisis of the Real" resulting in a state of desperation that inextricably and symmetrically ties visibility to violence. [This book] critically engages with questions about "ways of seeing" within cross-cultural contexts: why and how is an image seen in two opposing ways by people from different cultural backgrounds; and why and how do certain cartoons, photographs, and videos become both the cause and target of bloody political violence -- as witnessed by the deadly attacks against Charlie Hebdo in France and in the swift military response by the US and Jordan to videotaped violence by ISIS. -- Back cover.

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À propos de l?auteur

Hatem N. Akil teaches English at Seminole State College of Florida, USA. His work has been published in Theatre Life Journal and Cinema Life Journal. He was the founder of the Arab American IPTV, Mahjar TV, and Baraka World Music Series. Akil currently serves on the executive committee of the Global Arab/Arab American division of the Modern Language Association.

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1137569646
ISBN 13 
9781137569646
Reliure
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Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
250
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ISBN 10 :  1349928429 ISBN 13 :  9781349928422
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2019
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