The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring pdf

Peter Snowdon es un historiador y periodista contemporáneo. Educado en el St. Dunstan's College, la Universidad de Durham y la London School of Economics, ha colaborado con Anthony Seldon en varios libros, incluida la biografía autorizada de John Major, Major: A Political Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997), Blair (Simon & Schuster, 2004) y Blair Unbound (Simon & Schuster, 2007).[1] Ha escrito artículos sobre el Partido Conservador en varias revistas académicas, incluidas The Political Quarterly y Parliamentary Affairs. También ha colaborado con Parliamentary Monitor, Parliamentary Brief y Newsweek. Es columnista ocasional del Yorkshire Post y ha aparecido como comentarista en la televisión y la radio en el Reino Unido y en el extranjero. Actualmente trabaja para programas políticos de la BBC, habiendo trabajado anteriormente en London Weekend Television.

The People Are Not an Image: Vernacular Video After the Arab Spring pdf por Peter Snowdon

The wave of uprisings and revolutions that swept the Middle East and North Africa between 2010 and 2012 were most vividly transmitted throughout the world not by television or even social media, but in short videos produced by the participants themselves and circulated anonymously on the internet.
In The People Are Not an Image, Snowdon explores this radical shift in revolutionary self-representation, showing that the political consequences of these videos cannot be located without reference to their aesthetic form. Looking at videos from Tunisia, Bahrain, Syria, Libya, and Egypt, Snowdon attends closely to the circumstances of both their production and circulation, drawing on a wide range of historical and theoretical material, to discover what they can tell us about the potential for revolution in our time and the possibilities of video as a genuinely decentralised and vernacular medium.