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• Author/Creator:Stein, Rebecca L., author.
  
• Title:Screen Shots : State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine / Rebecca L. Stein.
  
• ISBN:9781503628038
  
• Publication:Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2021]
  
• Copyright notice date: ©2021
  
• Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
  
• Links:Online book
  

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• Notes:In English.
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• Summary:In the last two decades, amid the global spread of smartphones, state killings of civilians have increasingly been captured on the cameras of both bystanders and police. Screen Shots studies this phenomenon from the vantage point of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Here, cameras have proliferated as political tools in the hands of a broad range of actors and institutions, including Palestinian activists, Israeli soldiers, Jewish settlers, and human rights workers. All trained their lens on Israeli state violence, propelled by a shared dream: that advances in digital photography-closer, sharper, faster-would advance their respective political agendas. Most would be let down. Drawing on ethnographic work, Rebecca L. Stein chronicles Palestinian video-activists seeking justice, Israeli soldiers laboring to perfect the military's image, and Zionist conspiracy theorists accusing Palestinians of "playing dead." Writing against techno-optimism, Stein investigates what camera dreams and disillusionment across these political divides reveal about the Israeli and Palestinian colonial present, and the shifting terms of power and struggle in the smartphone age.
  
• Variant and related titles:De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2021.
  
• Format:Book
• Series:Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
  
• Contents:Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. State Violence and the Dream of the Perfect Camera -- Chapter 1. Sniper Portraiture. Personal Technologies in Military Theaters -- Chapter 2. Cameras Under Curfew. Occupied Media Infrastructures -- Chapter 3. Settler Scripts. Conspiracy Cameras and Fake News -- Chapter 4. The Eyes of the Human Rights. Curating Military Occupation -- Chapter 5. The Military's Lament. Combat Cameras and State Fantasies -- Coda. Broken Bones, Broken Dreams. The Politics of Failure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
  
• Subjects:Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Mass media and the conflict.
  Arab-Israeli conflict--1993---Photography.
  Documentary photography--Political aspects--Israel.
  Documentary photography--Political aspects--Palestine.
  Political violence--Israel.
  Political violence--Palestine.
  Video recordings--Political aspects--Israel.
  Video recordings--Political aspects--Palestine.
  Digital media.
  Gaza.
  Israeli military.
  Palestine.
  citizen journalism.
  human rights.
  settler colonialism.
  social movements.
  surveillance.
  visual politics.