Overview
- Analyzes two Palestine solidarity films directed by Arab Loutfi and two by Heiny Srour
- Engages the subject films in the context of public and scholarly debates concerning Zionism and film aesthetics
- Theorizes these films at the social ontological nexus of directorial positionality and cinematic structuration
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema (PASTARCI)
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
Keywords
- Arab Loutfi
- Heiny Srour
- Palestine cinema
- Arab women directors
- Palestine Liberation Movement
- Middle Eastern film
- Palestinian Solidarity cinema
- Leila and the Wolves [Leila wa-l-ziap]
- Tell Your Tale Little Bird [Ehki ya Asfoura]
- Jamila’s Mirror [Mara Jamila]
- The Hour of Liberation Has Come [Saat el-Tahrir Dakkat]
- Cinema studies
About this book
This book places long overdue focus on the Palestine solidarity films of two important Arab women directors whose cinematic works have never received due attention within the scholarly literature or the cultural public sphere. Through an analysis that situates these largely overlooked films within the matrix of an anti-Zionist critique of cinematic ontology, this book offers a materialist feminist appreciation of their political aesthetics while critiquing the ideological enabling conditions of their academic absenting. The study of these daring films fosters a much-needed, sustained understanding of the meaning and significance of Palestine solidarity filmmaking for and within the Arab world.
Reviews
—Greg Burris, Associate Professor of Media Studies, American University of Beirut; author of The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media, and the Radical Imagination
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Terri Ginsberg is assistant professor of film and media at Concordia University in Montréal. She is the author of Visualizing the Palestinian Struggle and Holocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology; co-author of Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema; and co-editor of Cinema of the Arab World and A Companion to German Cinema. She is a founding member of the Middle East Moving Image Collective (MEMIC). Her forthcoming edited collection looks at the governmentalization of international film education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour
Book Subtitle: Studies in Palestine Solidarity Cinema
Authors: Terri Ginsberg
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85354-9
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85353-2Published: 16 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85354-9Published: 15 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2731-4898
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4901
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 107
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Middle Eastern Culture, Global Cinema and TV, Film History, Culture and Gender, Film/TV Industry