Category: Media and Mass Communication – Visual Communication

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Israel through the Lenses of Oscar-Nominated Documentary Film ‘Promises’

Film is a significant tool of (re)shaping, (re)constructing, (re)presenting and (re)structuring realities. According to Edelman (1993) the social world is like a kaleidoscope of potential realities (p. 232). Media plays an active role in determining when and how to evoke certain realities depending on which observations are framed and categorized. The concept of media as