LibGuides: AUB Faculty and Staff Book Publications: 2019-Present: Media Studies

Books by year

2021
2019

Underground: The secret life of videocassettes in Iran by Blake Atwood
Publication Date: 2021
How Iranians forged a vibrant, informal video distribution infrastructure when their government banned all home video technology in 1983. In 1983, the Iranian government banned the personal use of home video technology. In Underground, Blake Atwood recounts how in response to the ban, technology enthusiasts, cinephiles, entrepreneurs, and everyday citizens forged an illegal but complex underground system for video distribution. Atwood draws on archival sources including trade publications, newspapers, memoirs, films, and laws, but at the heart of the book lies a corpus of oral history interviews conducted with participants in the underground.

APA citation:

Atwood, B. (2021). Underground: The secret life of videocassettes in Iran. MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/underground

The Palestinian idea: Film, media, and the radical imagination by Greg Burris
Call Number: J 305.892:B971p
Publication Date: 2019
Is there a link between the colonization of Palestinian lands and the enclosing of Palestinian minds? The Palestinian Idea argues that it is precisely through film and media that hope can occasionally emerge amidst hopelessness, emancipation amidst oppression, freedom amidst apartheid. Greg Burris employs the work of Edward W. Said, Jacques Rancière, and Cedric J. Robinson in order to locate Palestinian utopia in the heart of the Zionist present.

APA citation:

Burris, G. (2019). The Palestinian idea: Film, media, and the radical imagination. Temple University Press. Available at UL

Persian of Iran Today, Volume 2 by Anousha Shahsavari; Blake R. Atwood
Publication Date: 2019
Persian of Iran Today: Volume 2 is the second of two introductory Persian language textbooks by Anousha Shahsavari and Blake Atwood. Its innovative multimedia curriculum draws on the latest trends in language pedagogy and interweaves grammar- and vocabulary-building exercises with narrative elements in order to engage and develop students' abilities in Persian. Persian of Iran Today is a proficiency-based resource that gives equal weight to the development of reading, writing, listening, and speaking, and encourages students to use and create with the language from the very beginning. Persian of Iran Today is published by The University of Texas at Austin's Center for Middle Eastern Studies Publications program.

APA citation:

Shahsavari, A., & Atwood, B. (2019). Persian of Iran today: An introductory course, volume 2 (2nd ed.). University of Texas at Austin.

Books by chapter

APA citation:

Mourad, S. (2023). Appearing as women: Gender, publics, and revolution. In J. G. Karam & R. Majed (Eds.), The Lebanon uprising of 2019: Voices from the revolution (pp. 140-151). I. B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755644469 Available at UL

APA citations:

Burris, G. (2022). Our African Palestine: Intersectional specters in the House of Zion. In K. Galor & S. Atshan (Eds.), Reel gender: Palestinian and Israeli cinema (ch. 6). Bloomsbury Publishing.

Carney, J. (2022). Democra-z: Election propaganda, a failed coup and zombie politics in 'New Turkey'. In P. Hecker, I. Furman, & k. Akyildiz (Eds.), The politics of culture in contemporary Turkey (pp. 91-110). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474490313-010

APA citation:

Atwood, B. (2021). An archaeology of access: Materiality, historiography, and Iranian cinema. In M. Wittmann & U. Holl (Eds.), Counter-memories in Iranian cinema (pp. 63-84). Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474479776-008

APA citation:

Tarraf, Z. (2019). The attack: Doueiry's depoliticization of trauma in the transposition from literature to film. In E. McInnes & D. Schaub (Eds.), What happened? Re-presenting traumas, uncovering recoveries: Processing individual and collective trauma (pp. 19-33). Brill Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004385931_003 Available at UL