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- Book Title
- People Are Not an Image : Vernacular Video after the Arab Spring
- Publication Name
- The People Are Not an Image
- Title
- The People Are Not an Image
- Subtitle
- Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 1788733169
- EAN
- 9781788733168
- ISBN
- 9781788733168
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Genre
- Art, Social Science, Philosophy, Political Science
- Topic
- Media Studies, Art & Politics, General, Aesthetics
- Release Date
- 29/09/2020
- Release Year
- 2020
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 12.2 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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A major intervention in media studies theorizes the politics and aesthetics of internet video The wave of uprisings and revolutions that swept the Middle East and North Africa between 2010 and 2012 were most vividly transmitted throughout the world not by television or even social media, but in short videos produced by the participants themselves and circulated anonymously on the internet. In The People Are Not An Image , Snowdon explores this radical shift in revolutionary self-representation, showing that the political consequences of these videos cannot be located without reference to their aesthetic form. Looking at videos from Tunisia, Bahrain, Syria, Libya, and Egypt, Snowdon attends closely to the circumstances of both their production and circulation, drawing on a wide range of historical and theoretical material, to discover what they can tell us about the potential for revolution in our time and the possibilities of video as a genuinely decentralized and vernacular medium.
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Publisher
Verso Books
ISBN-10
1788733169
ISBN-13
9781788733168
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038629371
Product Key Features
Book Title
People Are Not an Image : Vernacular Video after the Arab Spring
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Media Studies, Art & Politics, General, Aesthetics
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Art, Social Science, Philosophy, Political Science
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
12.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Jq1850.A91
Reviews
"Peter Snowdon has mapped out the topography of a hidden treasure, drawing our attention to the videos of Arab revolutions as what he calls the ''vernacular anarchive'' of a momentous historic event otherwise withering away in the speed of post-truth amnesia. This is a revelatory book, indispensable for our understanding of what happened in the course of the Arab Revolutions when we were not paying proper attention." --Hamid Dabashi author of The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism "With The Uprising, a feature-length compilation of cell phone videos from the Arab revolutions, Peter Snowdon produced one of the great, if shamefully unknown, film works of the still young twenty-first Century. Revisiting his source material with admirable lucidity, the essays in The People Are Not an Image constitute a no less crucial and forward-looking work of cinematic exegesis. Together they represent a key development in the history of collective image-making." -- J. Hoberman, author of Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan and Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) "The anonymous videos of the 2010-2012 Arab uprisings, as reframed by this powerful and graceful book, are not documents of past events but performances that continue to live as they circulate online. Snowdon honors the videos as aesthetically complex works that, in the manner of a spiritual devotion, bring into being a collective body--one that just might burst the state''s cruel grip." --Laura U. Marks, author of Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image and Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art "Journalist, scholar, filmmaker, and maverick thinker, Peter Snowdon has written a fascinating and penetrating analysis of the Arab Spring''s ''vernacular videos'' and their emancipatory function, offering illuminating insights that are likely to shake up cinema theory today much as these videos once cracked open the Arab world." --Deirdre Boyle, Associate Professor of Media Studies, The New School and author of Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited "Snowdon combines narratives of personal encounters, without which no tale of a revolution can be complete, with a sophisticated analysis of the ways of seeing a complex, fast moving reality, and contemporary critical analysis. Combining the experience of filmmaking and the everyday dialectics of rebellion during the Arab uprisings of 2011, this book should appeal to anyone interested in the relation between image and protest, street and screen, ordinary life and extraordinary mobilization, feeling of personhood and sense historical relevance, and subjectivity in times of revolution." --Mohammed Bamyeh, author of Social Sciences in the Arab World and Anarchy as Order "Throughout the book, Snowdon practices an ethics of close reading that rejects critical habits of regarding images with suspicion. The People Are Not an Image charts hopeful trajectories for several areas of inquiry, from the politics of protest media and self-representation to networked distribution, operational images, and the digital remaking of subjectivity. Yet Snowdon''s ultimate project is more ambitious--to reshape his readers'' political imaginaries" --Sasha Crawford-Holland, Critical Inquiry "Peter Snowdon provides a radical philosophical approach to the daily videos produced by the ordinary people of the Arab spring." --Habib A. Moghimi, Visual Studies " The People Are Not an Image has significance for scholars but will also find wider audience appeal with, for example, digital media activists, filmmakers, and human rights advocates. It will be especially relevant to digital media and communication scholars and students with an interest in activism, social movements, and visual politics." --Kelly Lewis, E-International Relations, "Peter Snowdon has mapped out the topography of a hidden treasure, drawing our attention to the videos of Arab revolutions as what he calls the 'vernacular anarchive' of a momentous historic event otherwise withering away in the speed of post-truth amnesia. This is a revelatory book, indispensable for our understanding of what happened in the course of the Arab Revolutions when we were not paying proper attention." --Hamid Dabashi author of The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism "With The Uprising, a feature-length compilation of cell phone videos from the Arab revolutions, Peter Snowdon produced one of the great, if shamefully unknown, film works of the still young twenty-first Century. Revisiting his source material with admirable lucidity, the essays in The People Are Not an Image constitute a no less crucial and forward-looking work of cinematic exegesis. Together they represent a key development in the history of collective image-making." -- J. Hoberman, author of Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan and Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) "The anonymous videos of the 2010-2012 Arab uprisings, as reframed by this powerful and graceful book, are not documents of past events but performances that continue to live as they circulate online. Snowdon honors the videos as aesthetically complex works that, in the manner of a spiritual devotion, bring into being a collective body--one that just might burst the state's cruel grip." --Laura U. Marks, author of Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image and Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art "Journalist, scholar, filmmaker, and maverick thinker, Peter Snowdon has written a fascinating and penetrating analysis of the Arab Spring's 'vernacular videos' and their emancipatory function, offering illuminating insights that are likely to shake up cinema theory today much as these videos once cracked open the Arab world." --Deirdre Boyle, Associate Professor of Media Studies, The New School and author of Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited "Snowdon combines narratives of personal encounters, without which no tale of a revolution can be complete, with a sophisticated analysis of the ways of seeing a complex, fast moving reality, and contemporary critical analysis. Combining the experience of filmmaking and the everyday dialectics of rebellion during the Arab uprisings of 2011, this book should appeal to anyone interested in the relation between image and protest, street and screen, ordinary life and extraordinary mobilization, feeling of personhood and sense historical relevance, and subjectivity in times of revolution." --Mohammed Bamyeh, author of Social Sciences in the Arab World and Anarchy as Order, "Journalist, scholar, filmmaker, and maverick thinker, Peter Snowdon has written a fascinating and penetrating analysis of the Arab Spring's 'vernacular videos' and their emancipatory function, offering illuminating insights that are likely to shake up cinema theory today much as these videos once cracked open the Arab world." --Deirdre Boyle, Associate Professor of Media Studies, The New School and author of Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited "The essays in The People Are Not an Image constitute a crucial and forward-looking work of cinematic exegesis ... a key development in the history of collective image-making." --J. Hoberman, author of Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan "A powerful and graceful book." --Laura U. Marks, author of Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image "A revelatory book, in- dispensable for our understanding of what happened in the course of the Arab Revolutions when we were not paying proper attention." --Hamid Dabashi author of The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism
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2020-932070
Dewey Decimal
909.097492708312
Dewey Edition
23
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