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.
Examines the ways in which the Rwandan genocide has been portrayed, used, and re-created in international film and television productions between 1994 and 2021
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Gustafssons account of how the media have represented the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis of Rwanda is a tour de force. Rigorous, convincing, and compassionate, Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide is quite extraordinary. It truly deserves a very wide audience. -- Mette Hjort, University of Lincoln Gustafssons account of how the media have represented the 1994 genocide against the Tutsis of Rwanda is a tour de force. Rigorous, convincing, and compassionate, Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide is quite extraordinary. It truly deserves a very wide audience. -- Mette Hjort, University of Lincoln
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Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide
Part One: The Apocalypse, April to July 1994
2. Swedish Television News in 1994
Part Two: The Creation of a Transnational Historical Media Memory of the
Rwandan Genocide, 19942005
3. The Creation of a Transnational Historical Media Memory of the Rwandan
Genocide in the International Production of Television Documentaries,
19942003
4. The Creation of a Global Public Consciousness, 20042005
5. Telling the Truth: Documentary Films and Public Consciousness
Part Three: To Maintain a Historical Media Memory on a Global Level,
20042021
6. The Difficulties to Maintain a Historical Media Memory in Feature Films
7. Emblematic Images and the Maintenance of a Historical Media Memory in
Documentaries
8. Women, AIDS, and Rape
9. Reconciliation and Gacaca Documentaries
10. Historical Revisionism and Historical Negationism
Part Four: The Use of Historical Media Memories in Rwanda, 20012021
11. The Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwandan Film and Television
Notes
Bibliography
Filmography of the Rwandan Genocide
Index
Tommy 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.
