{"product_id":"historical-media-memories-of-the-rwandan-genocide-documentaries-films-and-television-news-9781399517331","title":"Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide: Documentaries, Films, and Television News","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistorical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide\u003c\/i\u003e studies the construction, the development, and the recreation of the transnational historical media memory of the genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. \u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTommy 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50457415844114,"sku":"9781399517331","price":130.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fa995a20-e655-4182-ae0a-4d0f730634cb.jpg?v=1729926987","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/historical-media-memories-of-the-rwandan-genocide-documentaries-films-and-television-news-9781399517331","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}