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Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri Victoria Brittain

Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri By Victoria Brittain

Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri by Victoria Brittain


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This book covers Mai Masris three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her focus on the social and political climates of the vivid lives of unseen people connects to the deepening violence in Palestine today.

Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri Summary

Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri by Victoria Brittain

This book covers Mai Masris three decades documenting iconic moments of Palestinian and Lebanese linked history. Her films, unique for giving agency to her subjects, tell much about the untold, unseen people, namely women and children, who lived these experiences of war and occupation. Former Lebanese political prisoner Soha Bechara praised her feature film3000 Nightsas the Lest we forget of Palestine." Her focus on the social and political climates of the vivid lives of unseen people connects to the deepening violence in Palestine today.

Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri Reviews

This book is accessible for a general audience interested in the lives of everyday Lebanese and Palestinians during the last five decades of resistance and is an excellent supplementary text for college courses on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Lebanese Civil War, the First Intifada, refugee issues, womens studies, and filmmaking. (Laurie King, Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 50 (4), 2021)

About Victoria Brittain

Victoria Brittain, a former foreign correspondent and Associate Foreign Editor ofThe Guardian, has reported from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and contributed to many media. Her latest book wasShadow Lives: The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror.

Table of Contents

1.A True Story:3000 Nights (2015).- 2.The Israelis and my home Nablus and Shatila:Under the Rubble (1983); Children of Fire (1990).- 3.Torture and Love in South Lebanon:Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon(1986); Women Beyond Borders (2004).- 4.The Green Line:War Generation Beirut(1989).- 5.The Disappeared:Suspended Dreams(1992); Lanterns of Memory (2009).- 6.My Palestine Shatila:Children of Shatila (1998).- 7.It is my Country:Frontiers of Dreams and Fears(2001).- 8.Museum of Memory:Beirut Diaries (2006).- 9.Let the Arabs See":33 Days(2007).- 10.Keeping going:Hanan Ashrawi: A woman of her Time (1995).- 11. Conclusion.

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NPB9783030375218
9783030375218
3030375218
Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri by Victoria Brittain
New
Hardback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2020-02-15
144
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