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- Title
Salam Neighbor: Syrian Refugees Through the Camera Lens.
- Authors
Asaad, Lava
- Abstract
This paper examines the documentary Salam Neighbor (2015), which celebrates the will of Syrian refugee women who are displaced in Jordan. The collective experience of the refugees portrayed in the documentary solicits a reaction from the Western viewer. To counteract the images of refugees in the media, documentaries can be a good alternative for mass media, which has been perpetuating a binary of the West and the Rest. The argument tackles the issue of this new representation of refugees in documentaries within a postcolonial paradigm of how we represent or speak to/with the Other in our technological age, as well as the possibilities of misrepresenting or silencing the Other through the camera lens.
- Subjects
SALAM Neighbor (Film); TEMPLE, Chris; INGRASCI, Zach; DOCUMENTARY films -- History &; criticism; REFUGEES in motion pictures; SYRIAN refugees; WOMEN refugees
- Publication
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature & Culture: A Web Journal, 2019, Vol 21, Issue 5, p1
- ISSN
1481-4374
- Publication type
Film/Television Criticism
- DOI
10.7771/1481-4374.3263