Visual culture in the modern Middle East rhetoric of the image
Title:
Visual culture in the modern Middle East rhetoric of the image
Author:
Gruber, Christiane J., 1976-
Publication Information:
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
xxvii, 343 p. : ill.
General Note:
"The contributions were first presented at the April 2009 conference "Rhetoric of the Image: Visual Culture in Political Islam," held in Magleaas, Denmark"--Acknowledgements.
Contents:
Images of the Prophet Muhammad in and out of modernity : the curious case of a 2008 mural in Tehran / Secular domesticities, Shiite modernities : Khomeini's illustrated Tawzih al-Masail / Memory and ideology : images of Saladin in Syria and Iraq / "You will (not) be able to take your eyes off it!" : mass-mediated images and politico-ethical reform in the Egyptian Islamic revival / The Muslim "crying boy" in Turkey : aestheticization and politicization of suffering in Islamic imagination / The new happy child in Islamic picture books in Turkey / Sadrabiliyya : the visual narrative of Muqtada al-Sadr's Islamist politics and insurgency in Iraq / The martyr's fading body : propaganda vs. beautification in the Tehran cityscape / Pushing out Islam : cartoons of the reform period in Turkey (1923-1930) / Blasphemy or critique? : secularists and Islamists in Turkish cartoon images / Naji al-Ali and the iconography of Arab secularism / Arab television drama production and the Islamic public sphere / Saudi-Islamist rhetorics about visual culture
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