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Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide: Documentaries, Films, and Television News

Tommy Gustafsson

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2024), xii, 297 pp.

"The Rwandan genocide is the second most audio-visually recreated genocide after the Holocaust, with approximately 200 films and documentaries produced in 39 countries between 1994 and 2021. Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide studies the construction, the development, and the recreati ... more

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Microhistories of Memory: Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar West Germany

Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2024), xxxii, 244 pp.

"The West German novel, radio play, and television series, Through the Night (Am grünen Strand der Spree, 1955-1960), which depicts the mass shootings of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II, has been gradually regaining popularity in recent years. Originally circulated in post-war ... more

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Mediating Violence from Africa: Francophone Literature, Film, and Testimony after the Cold War

George S. MacLeod

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (2023), xx, 227 pp.

"Mediating Violence from Africa explores how African and non-African Francophone authors, filmmakers, editors, and scholars have packaged, interpreted, and filmed the violent histories of post–Cold War Francophone Africa. This violence, much of which unfolded in front of Western television cameras ... more

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Film Practice in the Context of War in Greater North Kivu Region of the Democratic Republic of Congo: The Film Message as a Tool for Peace

Jean-Paul Paluku Kamili

Nairobi: Doctoral Thesis Daystar University (2023), xii, 348 pp.

"Greater North Kivu is a region in the East of the DRC characterized by an unending socio-cultural and political crisis that has brought about insecurity, war, massacres, and land conflicts since 1996. Efforts to resolve this war crisis to restore justice and peace have not been successful. The aim ... of this research was to evaluate the film practice in the Greater North Kivu region in the context of this war situation and if those films which were set against this reality had messages that focused on sustainable peace. The specific research questions of the study were: What could be the varying contexts of war and related conflicts from which each of the selected films acquires its character? In what way do the cinematographic messages reflect the context of war in the Greater North Kivu? How do the thematic messages aim to sensitize the population towards peace in the region? What are the opportunities and challenges of film making for peace in the region? What construct emerges as a typology of context and types of persuasion messages that may emerge from selected films of the study. The study adopted a qualitative research design, and constructivism and interpretivism philosophical research paradigms. The target population consisted of film makers in the Greater North Kivu, civil society, community and government leaders. The study concluded that the multiple contexts of the war manifest in the character of the variety of films produced but that the film codes reflecting this reality aim to break and change it thereby creating a new grammar for a new context. In addition, the film for sensitizing works with strategies of arousing emotions that are carefully selected with great sensitivity because of the fragile context of the war situation in its causes, consequences, and what is to be done. The thesis of this study is that the many contexts of the war situation in the region of study manifest themselves in the selected films chosen for the research. In a simultaneous manner the film maker’s codes aim to break the existing contexts to new beginnings. While the film codes may be of the grammar of existing context, their very ambition and motivation is to introduce a new grammar for a vision of a new context, transforming the old one. Based on the findings of the current study, the study recommends the film makers to continue to use potent symbolism in their stories to effectively sensitize the population to the situation and promote the necessary actions. The study recommends to the government and policymakers makers to allocate resources towards the Ministry of Arts and Culture to support local film production, recognizing its potential as a tool for peacebuilding and societal change." (Abstract) more

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In the Shadow of Genocide: Justice and Memory Within Rwanda

Stephanie Wolfe, Matthew C. Kane, Tawia B. Ansah (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxix, 281 pp.

"This book brings together scholars and practitioners for a unique inter-disciplinary exploration of justice and memory within Rwanda. It explores the various strategies the state, civil society, and individuals have employed to come to terms with their past and shape their future. The main objectiv ... more

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War in Film: Semiotics and Conflict Related Sign Constructions on the Screen

Frank Jacob (ed.)

Marburg: Büchner-Verlag (2022), 229 pp.

"Wars in films are […] always more than just the staging or presentation of a historical event; they offer an interpretation of these events that usually corresponds with other aspects, e. g. society's evaluation of war per se, or wishes about how specific events related to war should be commemora ... more

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Kino und Katharsis? Bilder vom Nationalsozialismus im deutschen Film

Sonja M. Schultz

In: Aufarbeitung des Nationalsozialismus: Ein Kompendium

Magnus Brechtken (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2021), pp. 534-556

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Languages of Trauma: History, Memory, and Media

Peter Leese, Julia Barbara Köhne, Jason Crouthamel (eds.)

Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press (2021), xiv, 408 pp.

"This volume traces the distinct cultural languages in which individual and collective forms of trauma are expressed in diverse variations, including oral and written narratives, literature, comic strips, photography, theatre, and cinematic images. The central argument is that traumatic memories are ... more

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Digitally Mediated Art in the War Zone: The Aesthetics of Resilience in Yemen

Nurgul Oruc

CyberOrient, volume 14, issue 2 (2020), pp. 4-37

"This article traces how Yemeni artists have intervened in the representation of the conflict and war in Yemen since 2011. It analyzes the heterogonous artistic forms, contents, and representational strategies that Yemeni artists and filmmakers have employed to express their collective concerns over ... more

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"When the Battle's Lost and Won:" Narratives of Peace in the Afghan Film 'A War'

Axel Heck

Peace & Change, volume 45, issue 1 (2020), pp. 101-125

"This article examines the ways in which cinematic film underscores the latency of structural violence in its visualization of peace, specifically through the juxtaposition of the life world of the two main protagonists in the Danish film A War (2016): Captain Claus Pedersen who serves as a Danish s ... more

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Intermediality in the Visualization of Peace: Contradicting Narratives About Peace and Violence in Timor-Leste

Eva Ottendörfer

Peace & Change, volume 45, issue 1 (2020), pp. 78-100

"The documentary dalan ba dame was produced by the East Timorese Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (Comissao de Acolhimento, Verdade e Reconciliaao de Timor-Leste, CAVR) and covers the twenty-four years of Indonesian occupation of Timor-Leste, during which nearly one quarter of the ... more

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Rethinking Testimonial Cinema in Postdictatorship Argentina: Beyond Memory Fatigue

Verónica Garibotto

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2019), 272 pp.

"By critically examining how trauma theory and subaltern studies have previously been applied to testimonial cinema, Garibotto rereads Argentinian films produced since 1983 and calls for an alternate interpretive framework at the intersection of semiotics, theories of affect, scholarship on hegemony ... more

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Vergeben und vergessen? Erinnerungskultur

iz3w, issue 373 (2019), pp. 16-37

"In den 1980er Jahren verstärkte sich das Unbehagen an der Gedenkkultur mit ihren Heldenerzählungen und nationalen Beschränkungen. Mit der größeren Komplexität des Gedenkens und der Hinwendung zu den sozialen Kosten historischer Ereignisse prägte sich eine neue Erinnerungskultur aus. Diese is ... more

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Allegory in Iranian Cinema: The Aesthetics of Poetry and Resistance

Michelle Langford

London: Bloomsbury Academic (2019), xiv, 282 pp.

"Iranian filmmakers have long been recognised for creating a vibrant, aesthetically rich cinema whilst working under strict state censorship regulations. As Michelle Langford reveals, many have found indirect, allegorical ways of expressing forbidden topics and issues in their films. But for many, a ... more

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Kino in Kolumbien: Der innerkolumbianische Konflikt im Film zwischen Gewaltdiskurs und (trans-)nationaler Identität

Anne Burkhardt

Bielefeld: transcript (2019), 422 pp.

"Der landesinterne Konflikt in Kolumbien und die damit einhergehende Gewalt sind seit deren Ausbruch in den 1940er Jahren zentraler Gegenstand des kolumbianischen Kinos. Unter dem Einfluss sich wandelnder Gewaltdiskurse und Produktionsbedingungen entwerfen die kolumbianischen Filmemacher_innen viels ... more

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Dealing with the Past: Sarajevo Film Festival 10-17 August 2018

Sarajevo Film Festival (2018), 18 pp.

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El arte desde el pasado fracturado peruano

Cynthia E. Milton (ed.)

Lima: IEP Ediciones (2018), 343 pp.

"La Comisión de Verdad y Reconciliación no solo documentó la violencia política de las décadas del ochenta y noventa, sino que también le dio a los peruanos una oportunidad única para examinar las causas y la naturaleza de esa violencia. En El arte después de un pasado fracturado peruano, ac ... more

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The Trauma Graphic Novel

Andrés Romero-Jódar

New York; London: Routledge (2017), x, 179 pp.

"The end of the twentieth century and the turn of the new millennium witnessed an unprecedented flood of traumatic narratives and testimonies of suffering in literature and the arts. Graphic novels, free at last from long decades of stern censorship, helped explore these topics by developing a new s ... more

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O Holocausto no cinema

Revista do Instituto Humanitas Unisinos, issue 501 (2017), pp. 14-49

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Der Film Hara Harwaa Reihaby von Emma Chodzaa als Instrument der staatlichen Beeinflussung des kollektiven Gedächtnisses in Abchasien

Annika Gläser

Frankfurt, Oder: Bachelor Thesis Europa-Universität Vidriana (2016), 53 pp.

"Die Fallanalyse hat gezeigt, dass eine Erzählung vom Krieg 1992-93 propagiert wird, die einer abchasischen Version des Narrationsschemas 'Die Vertreibung von fremden Feinden' entspricht. Ein zentrales Element der Erzählung ist zudem, so ergab die Interpretation, eine betont positive Darstellung d ... more