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AB - http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/POM19.1 The Thematic and Aesthetic Qualities of ISIS media production Afif J. Arabi Lebanese International University Afif.arabi@liu.edu.lb Abstract: This paper is set out to investigate the thematic and aesthetic qualities and the production process of ISIS film productions and to explore several issues arising from ISIS new trend in image production in areas of conflict. Scripted, rehearsed, performed and staged, these images can be read as “sociograms” where the director, cinematographer, subject/victim and apparatus collide to produce a Durkheimian “collective representation”. Keywords: Terrorism, ISIS, al-Qaeda, Media Production, Aesthetics, Collective representation. 1. INTRODUCTION rehearsed, performed and staged, these images can be read as “sociograms” where In the eighties, al-Qaeda produced the director, cinematographer, subject/victim promotional and propaganda videos using and apparatus collide to produce a VHS and Betamax consumer analogue Durkheimian “collective representation”. technology showing “heroic” real action from the battlefields against the Russians in BACKGROUND: Afghanistan. These productions were disseminated through physical pass-on During the 1980s and 1990s, in an effort to process in the form of low picture quality recruit Muslims to join the Jihad against the dubbed video tapes. Similar practice was also Soviet Union in Afghanistan and Chechnya, al- the case of al-Qaeda operations against Qaeda 
TI - The Thematic and Aesthetic Qualities of ISIS media production
DO - 10.14236/ewic/pom19.1
DA - 2019-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/the-thematic-and-aesthetic-qualities-of-isis-media-production-NTRfpp2rWF
DP - DeepDyve
ER -