{"product_id":"sovereign-intimacy-9780520390294","title":"Sovereign Intimacy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the early 1990s, Israeli television began dedicating Memorial Day airtime to videos produced by the grieving families of soldiers killed in the line of duty. When these videos first appeared, during a period of growing Israeli discontent with the occupation of southern Lebanon, they were widely perceived as a challenge to the state, reclaiming the dead from Israel's militaristic memory culture by resituating them in intimate domestic contexts via mediated commemorations.    By tracing an emerging media system of freelance filmmaking, privatized television, state institutes of care, and grassroots campaigns, Laliv Melamed reveals how these videos nevertheless avoid a fundamental critique of Israeli militarism, which is instead invited into the familiar space of the home. These intimate connections of memory and media exploit bonds of kinship and reshape larger relationships between the state and its citizens, enabling a collective disavowal of colonial violence. InSovereign Intimacy,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A much-welcome intervention. . . . Melamed’s work earnestly reckons with the urgent need to account for the haunting presence of Palestine in Israeli media practices to interrogate the visuality of Israel’s ever-growing colonial violence.\" * Film Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Prologue. “OUR SONS” \u003cbr\u003e A Note on Sources \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE. SOVEREIGNTY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. To Keep in Touch \u003cbr\u003e 2. Intimate Proxies \u003cbr\u003e 3. Scheduled Memories, Programmed Mourning \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO. INTIMACY \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Figures of Speech \u003cbr\u003e 5. At Face Value \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Answering a Call \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e Filmography \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402965590359,"sku":"9780520390294","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520390294.jpg?v=1730481981","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sovereign-intimacy-9780520390294","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}