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Record Nr.

UNINA9910888082203321

Autore

Gustafsson Tommy

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2024

©2023

ISBN

1-3995-1736-8

1-3995-1735-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 pages)

Disciplina

967.5710431

Soggetti

Rwandan Genocide, Rwanda, 1994

Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 Mass media and the war

Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 Motion pictures and the war

Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 Atrocities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide -- Part One The Apocalypse, April to July 1994 -- 2 Swedish Television News in 1994 -- Part Two The Creation of a Transnational Historical Media Memory of the Rwandan Genocide, 1994–2005 -- 3 The Creation of a Transnational Historical Media Memory of the Rwandan Genocide in the International Production of Television Documentaries, 1994–2003 -- 4 The Creation of a Global Public Consciousness, 2004–2005 -- 5 Telling the Truth: Documentary Films and Public Consciousness -- Part Three To Maintain a Historical Media Memory on a Global Level, 2004–2021 -- 6 The Difficulties of Maintaining a Historical Media Memory in Feature Films -- 7 Emblematic Images and the Maintenance of a Historical Media Memory in Documentaries -- 8 Women, AIDS, and Rape -- 9 Reconciliation and Gacaca Documentaries -- 10 Historical Revisionism and Historical Negationism -- Part Four The Use of Historical Media Memories in Rwanda, 2001–2021 -- 11 The Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwandan Film and Television -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography of the Rwandan Genocide -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

Examines the ways in which the Rwandan genocide has been portrayed, used, and re-created in international film and television productions between 1994 and 2021.