Introduction -- 1. Refracted visions : "ethnic cleansing" and the de-mythologization of gender -- 2. Visual currencies : documenting India's red light districts -- 3. Discontinuous states : Palestinian and Israeli border imaginaries -- 4. Diffracted mediations : the framing of gender in the "War on Terror" -- Epilogue : the political exigency of the oblique
Summary
"Focuses specifically on video as a central medium for both archiving events and experimenting with modes of representation and reception, and studies not only on how artists and documentarians record political, social, and economic conditions, but also how feminist politics are mediated in culture"--Provided by publisher
