Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide

Documentaries, Films, and Television News

Tommy Gustafsson author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Publishing:31st Dec '25

£19.99

This title is due to be published on 31st December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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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.

ISBN: 9781399517348

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256 pages