Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide: Documentaries, Films, and Television News

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Tommy Gustafsson

Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide

Documentaries, Films, and Television News

Tommy Gustafsson

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Edinburgh University Press
22 April 2024

Film theory & criticism; Documentary movies & films; Reference works

The Rwandan genocide is the second most audio-visually recreated genocide after the Holocaust, with approximately 200 films and documentaries produced in 39 countries between 1994 and 2021.

Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide studies the construction, the development, and the recreation of the transnational historical media memory of the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994.

This is the first comprehensive work that traces the international media image and the creation of historical memories of the Rwandan genocide, starting with the day to day television news reporting in 1994, and continuing with analyzes of how the genocide has been used and recreated in film and documentaries on a global level as well on a national level, where Rwanda, as a nation, creates its own images of the genocide in film and television production in order to support a new national identity.

By: Tommy Gustafsson
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 612g
ISBN: 9781399517331
ISBN 10: 1399517333
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 22 April 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tommy Gustafsson is Professor of Film Studies at Linnaeus University, Sweden. His books include The Politics of Nordsploitation (with Pietari Kääpä, 2021), Masculinity in the Golden Age of Swedish Cinema (2014), and the anthologies Nordic Genre Films (EUP, 2015) and Transnational Ecocinema (2013), both co-edited with Pietari Kääpä.

Reviews for Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide: Documentaries, Films, and Television News

Gustafsson's account of how the media have represented the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis of Rwanda is a tour de force. Rigorous, convincing, and compassionate, Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide is quite extraordinary. It truly deserves a very wide audience. --Mette Hjort, University of Lincoln