Sovereign Intimacy

Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence

Laliv Melamed

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English

University of California Press
18 May 2023

Middle Eastern history; Colonialism & imperialism; Media studies; Violence in society; Nationalism

In 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. In Sovereign Intimacy, Melamed offers a poignant and critical view of the weaponization of home media and mourning in service of the neoliberal settler state.

By: Laliv Melamed
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9780520390287
ISBN 10: 0520390288
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 18 May 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Prologue. “OUR SONS” A Note on Sources Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE. SOVEREIGNTY 1. To Keep in Touch 2. Intimate Proxies 3. Scheduled Memories, Programmed Mourning PART TWO. INTIMACY 4. Figures of Speech 5. At Face Value Epilogue. Answering a Call Notes Filmography Bibliography Index

Laliv Melamed is Assistant Professor of Film and Media at the University of Groningen.

Reviews for Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence

"""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 *"