"Elegantly yet accessibly written, Death, Image, Memory is an absolutely vital contribution to many fields of intellectual inquiry, including visual culture and film studies, trauma and genocide studies, and African Studies. What makes the book stand out is its detailed and respectful attention both to texts and contexts, which means that - to the extent that any "justice" can be done in relation to an event such as the Rwandan Genocide - it attempts to do justice to the people affected by trauma and not only to the images themselves. In maintaining the tension between the epistemological value of images (produced and viewed by Rwandans and non-Rwandans) and of the Rwandan tradition of oral history, as well as gestures of silence and resistance to even sharing the trauma of the Genocide, the book keeps ethical, material, and embodied imperatives constantly in the foreground. Furthermore, its theoretical sophistication in considering the evidentiary and memorial claims, possibilities, and shortcomings of lens-based images makes the book a particularly invaluable contribution not only to studies of documentary photography and film production and reception in African and other global contexts, but to studies of fiction film too." (Dr Lindiwe Dovey, SOAS, University of London)