Hatim El-Hibri

Visions of Beirut

The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure

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Produktbeschreibung

Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images has shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut, showing how images can be used to consolidate or destabilize regimes of power.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781478010777
• ISBN-10: 1478010770
• Artikelnr.: 60010431

Autorenporträt

Hatim El-Hibri

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Translation and Transliteration  vii
Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. The Social Life of Maps of Beirut  21
2. Images of Before/After in the Economy of Postwar Construction  64
3. Concealment, Liveness, and Al Manar TV  105
4. The Open Secret of Concealment at the Mleeta Museum  144
Conclusion  178
Notes  183
References  217
Index  247