What are the political and aesthetic dimensions of video art, documentary, and global cinema in contemporary image culture? Lynes makes visible how sites of political struggle, exploitation, and armed conflict can be interpreted through a feminist politics of location, attentive to the frictions and flows within transnational circuits of exchange.

Autorentext
Krista Geneviève Lynes is Canada Research Chair in Feminist Media Studies and Assistant Professor of Communication at Concordia University, Canada.

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Introduction: Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits Refracted Visions: 'Ethnic Cleansing' and the De-mythologization of Gender Visual Currencies: Documenting India's Red Light Districts Discontinuous States: Palestinian and Israeli Border Imaginaries Diffracted Mediations: The Framing of Gender in the 'War on Terror'