Haunting and the neoliberal encounter inTerra IncognitaandA Perfect Day
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3877808 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zeina Tarraf (University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 39-62 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Dynamics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0921374017709239 |
| OpenAlex | W2618360697 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 24 |
This article analyses two post-civil war Lebanese films, Ghassan Salhab's Terra Incognita and Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas' A Perfect Day, to examine how the conditions and valences of a particular sociocultural moment register affectively and mobilize the investments that inform memory making in the Lebanese context. In particular, I study these works as embodiments of an emerging structure of feeling specific to post-civil war Beirut, in which the haunting remnants of an unresolved violent past intersect with the neoliberal imperatives to propel Lebanon into a global market. In this sense, I build upon an exclusive concern with 'pastness', which often dominates discussions about post-conflict and post-colonial societies, in order to consider how an unfinished traumatic past intersects with more contemporary oppressions and the affective dimension of these intersections. Through a series of visual motifs and audio techniques, Terra Incognita and A Perfect Day track the ways that forces from the past encounter a wholesale embrace of neoliberalism and commercialism to create a kind of affective impasse that plays out either in depressed apathy or in excessive indulgence
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Commercialism · Media studies · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Middle East Politics and Society
Empathic Vision
Ghostly Matters
Disciplining the Holocaust
Cruel Optimism
Recovering Beirut
Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa
War and Memory in Lebanon
Lebanese Cinema
The Architectural Uncanny
Beirut Reborn
Refracted Filmmaking in Muhammad Malas’s The Dream and Kamal Aljafari’s The Roof
Making sense
Hauntology, spectres and phantoms
Violence, Crisis, and the Everyday
Affective Landscapes
Towards a Phenomenology of Civil War
Transnational Pathways and Politico-economic Power
The Turn to Affect
Laying Claim to Beirut
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |