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What is Visual Narratives

Memory, Conflicts, Disasters, and the Geopolitics of the Displaced
Refers to the filmic production of documentaries through which narration of historical events was the core issue.
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Forgive but Not Forget: The Social Role of Cinema in Restoring Collective Memory and Rebuilding Belonging
Amal Adel Abdrabo (Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, Egypt)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 25
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4438-9.ch007
Abstract
Pierre Nora once said, “We speak so much of memory because there is so little of it left.” Does it mean that we need to document memory so not to lose the truth? What is the ‘T'ruth? And from which perspective? Based on the Lebanese case, could films be one of the mechanisms used to achieve transitional justice? The author of this chapter depends on both Pierre Nora's perception of sites and place of memory along with Maurice Halbwachs' theory on collective memory in order to understand whether documenting the traumatic events is considered as an applicable mechanism to achieve justice within countries that struggle to accomplish national reconciliation? The methodological approach relies on visual critical discourse analysis combining Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic approach and Norman Fairclough's perception of dialectic of discourse.
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Constructing and Reconstructing Orientalism: Depicting Orientalist Imagery in Contemporary Art in the Quest of Self-Identity
Combination of visual symbols and gestures that when summed portray a message. Visual narratives can be sculptures, paintings, photographs, and other forms of visual art.
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