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

Examines the ways in which the Rwandan genocide has been portrayed, used, and re-created in international film and television productions between 1994 and 2021The first study that includes all film and television productions on the Rwandan genocide, approximately 200 productions made in 39 countries...

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1. Verfasser: Gustafsson, Tommy (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2024]
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Zusammenfassung:Examines the ways in which the Rwandan genocide has been portrayed, used, and re-created in international film and television productions between 1994 and 2021The first study that includes all film and television productions on the Rwandan genocide, approximately 200 productions made in 39 countries between 1994 and 2021Introduces the term emblematic images, that is, images that were created during the television news reporting of the genocide in 1994, and then used and re-created in film and documentariesIntroduces a new theoretical perspective in the fields of Film and History, and Film and Genocide that, for the first time, take into consideration a transnational approach and how this is connected to changes and repetitions over timeThis is the first study that takes a comprehensive on how the Rwandan film and television industry have handled the genocide against the Tutsis The book is based on extensive research, including several longer research trips to Rwanda,
and it includes a great variety of source material, such as international film reviews, articles, debates, books, extratextual production material, and interviews as well as teaching guides, official Rwandan governmental reports, and UN reportsThe 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 recreation of the transnational historical media memory of the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.
This is the first comprehensive work that traces the international media image and the creation of historical memories of the Rwandan genocide, starting with the day to day television news reporting in 1994, and continuing with analyzes of how the genocide has been used and recreated in film and documentaries on a global level as well on a national level, where Rwanda, as a nation, creates its own images of the genocide in film and television production in order to support a new national identity
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ISBN:9781399517355
DOI:10.1515/9781399517355

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