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Death, Image, Memory; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; The Irrelevance of Images; The Relevance of Images; Organization of the Book; Genocide; History and Context; International Involvement; The Aftermath; Justice and Memory; Notes; Chapter 1: Image, Evidence, Memory; Missing the Story?; Images of Genocide; Lights, Camera...Camps; Genocide as Fiction; Documentary and Genocide; In Need of Evidence?; Death, Trauma and Memory; Documentary Film; Notes; Chapter 2: Images of After: Gilles Peress and Sebastião Salgado; Seeing Death; Photographing Atrocity: Document, Art, Commodity
The SilencePeress's Corpses; Salgado and Migrations; The Problem of Beauty; Photographing the Camps; Permission or Acceptance?; Bodies and Machines; Conclusion: Latency As An Excuse?; Notes; Chapter 3: Images of Before: Personal Archives and the Kigali Genocide Memorial; Rwanda's Memorials; Politics, History and Commemoration; Rwanda's Bones; Kigali Genocide Memorial; The Permanent Exhibition; The Portraits; The Photographs' Journeys; Memorial Contexts and the 'Museum Effect'; What Remains?; Looking and Not Knowing: Two Wedding Photographs; Identification; Haunted Objects?
Conclusion: Familiar Evidence and the Right to WithholdNotes; Chapter 4: 'Who Filmed This?'-Iseta: Behind the Roadblock (2008); From Still to Moving; Genocide and the Documentary Archive; Filming the Killings; Zapruder Film, Pellicule Maudite or Neither?; In Search of Meaning; Iseta: Behind the Roadblock; Taming the Past; The Gikondo Footage; Concrete Outcomes?; Conclusion: The Ethics of Knowing; Notes; Chapter 5: 'I Remember Them'-Keepers of Memory (2004); Words Over Images?; Film and Survivors; A Short History of Post-Genocide Rwandan Film; Film and Genocide in Rwanda
Rwanda Film Festival and Reception of Genocide FilmsTestimonial Space; Testimonial Burden; Looking and Listening; Past and Present Speak to Each Other; Testimonial Challenges; Conclusion: Filmmaker as Witness?; Notes; Conclusion: In Defence of Images?; Bibliography; Filmography; Interviews; Websites; Index
The SilencePeress's Corpses; Salgado and Migrations; The Problem of Beauty; Photographing the Camps; Permission or Acceptance?; Bodies and Machines; Conclusion: Latency As An Excuse?; Notes; Chapter 3: Images of Before: Personal Archives and the Kigali Genocide Memorial; Rwanda's Memorials; Politics, History and Commemoration; Rwanda's Bones; Kigali Genocide Memorial; The Permanent Exhibition; The Portraits; The Photographs' Journeys; Memorial Contexts and the 'Museum Effect'; What Remains?; Looking and Not Knowing: Two Wedding Photographs; Identification; Haunted Objects?
Conclusion: Familiar Evidence and the Right to WithholdNotes; Chapter 4: 'Who Filmed This?'-Iseta: Behind the Roadblock (2008); From Still to Moving; Genocide and the Documentary Archive; Filming the Killings; Zapruder Film, Pellicule Maudite or Neither?; In Search of Meaning; Iseta: Behind the Roadblock; Taming the Past; The Gikondo Footage; Concrete Outcomes?; Conclusion: The Ethics of Knowing; Notes; Chapter 5: 'I Remember Them'-Keepers of Memory (2004); Words Over Images?; Film and Survivors; A Short History of Post-Genocide Rwandan Film; Film and Genocide in Rwanda
Rwanda Film Festival and Reception of Genocide FilmsTestimonial Space; Testimonial Burden; Looking and Listening; Past and Present Speak to Each Other; Testimonial Challenges; Conclusion: Filmmaker as Witness?; Notes; Conclusion: In Defence of Images?; Bibliography; Filmography; Interviews; Websites; Index