Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan Genocide

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.

Gustafsson’s 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.

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Historical Media Memories of the Rwandan GenocidePart One: The Apocalypse, April to July 19942. Swedish Television News in 1994Part Two: The Creation of a Transnational Historical Media Memory of the Rwandan Genocide, 1994–2005 3. The Creation of a Transnational Historical Media Memory of the Rwandan Genocide in the International Production of Television Documentaries, 1994–2003 4. The Creation of a Global Public Consciousness, 2004–2005 5. Telling the Truth: Documentary Films and Public ConsciousnessPart Three: To Maintain a Historical Media Memory on a Global Level, 2004–2021 6. The Difficulties to Maintain a Historical Media Memory in Feature Films7. Emblematic Images and the Maintenance of a Historical Media Memory in Documentaries8. Women, AIDS, and Rape9. Reconciliation and Gacaca Documentaries10. Historical Revisionism and Historical NegationismPart Four: The Use of Historical Media Memories in Rwanda, 2001–202111. The Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwandan Film and TelevisionNotesBibliographyFilmography of the Rwandan GenocideIndex