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Gaza on Screen Nadia Yaqub

Gaza on Screen By Nadia Yaqub

Gaza on Screen by Nadia Yaqub


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Contributors to Gaza on Screen, including scholars and Gazan filmmakers, explore the practice, production, and impact of film and videos from and about the Gaza Strip.

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Gaza on Screen by Nadia Yaqub

Gazas long association with resistance and humanitarian need has generated a complex and ever shifting range of visual material, comprising not just news reports and documentaries, but also essay, experimental, and fiction films, militant videos, and solidarity images. Contributors to Gaza on Screen, who include scholars and Gazan filmmakers, explore the practice, production, and impact of film and videos from and about the Gaza Strip. Conceptualizing screensboth large and smallas tools for mediation that are laden with power, the volume explores Gazan film and video in relation to humanitarianism and human rights, care, community, environment, mobility and confinement, and decolonization. The volume includes visual material ranging from solidarity broadcasts on Lebanese television, mid-twentieth-century British Pathe newsreels, and fiction films to breaking news, visuals of contemporary militant resistance, documentaries, and found footage films, arguing for a visual ecosystem in which differing types of film and video affect and inform each other. Throughout, Gaza on Screendemonstrates that screens shape and sustain relationships between Gaza and the world, and help to sustain the possibility of a different future.

Contributors. Nayrouz Abu Hatoum, Shahd Abusalama, Samirah Alkassim, Basma Alsharif, Hadeel Assali, Azza El-Hassan, Hatim El-Hibri, Mohamed Jabaly, Ahmed Mansour, Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser, Kamran Rastegar, Viviane Saglier, Abdelsalam Shehada, Yaron Shemer, Rebecca L. Stein, Helga Tawil-Souri, Shaira Vadasaria, Nadia Yaqub

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Gaza on Screen is a groundbreaking text that considers Gaza filmmaking, cinema, and visual production. Its contributors include key Palestinian, especially Gazan, thinkers and artists. The collection offers original, deeply engaging, and often captivating conversations and analysis. -- Frances S. Hasso, author of * Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine *
"In many ways, this book opens up new paths. The emphasis on screens both large and small is innovative and bound to become more important as the Internet and the cloud provide opportunities for Gazans to break out of the blockade, at least in cyberspace. Above all, the books contributors argue successfully for new visions of Gaza, ones not defined solely by images of destruction but instead offering steadfast hope, resilient humor, and a firm attachment to place." -- Inez Hedges * Jump Cut *

About Nadia Yaqub

Nadia Yaqub is Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; author of Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art: The Oral Poetry Dueling of Palestinian Weddings in the Galilee and Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution;and coeditor of Bad Girls of the Arab World.

Table of Contents

Note on Transliteration xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction / Nadia Yaqub 1
1. Gaza Filmmaking in a Palestinian Context: A Gazan Filmmakers Roundtable / Basma Alsharif, Azza El-Hassan, Mohamed Jabaly, Ahmed Mansour, Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser, and Abdelsalam Shehada (Editing and commentary by Nadia Yaqub with an introduction by Azza El-Hassan) 29
2. Gazan Cinema as an Infrastructure of Care / Viviane Saglier 50
3. Found Footage as Counter-ethnography: Scenes from the Occupation of Gaza and the Films of Basma Alsharif / Samirah Alkassim 71
4. Rendering Gaza Visible: The Visual Economy of the Nakba in Palestinian Films of the Oslo Period / Kamran Rastegar 92
5. So Close, So Far: Gaza in Israeli Cinema / Yaron Shemer 114
6. Attending to the Fugitive: Resistance Videos from Gaza / Nayrouz Abu Hatoum and Hadeel Assali 136
7. Sensory Politics of Return: Hearing Gaza under Siege / Shaira Vadasaria 157
8. How to Unsee Gaza: Israeli Media, State Violence, Palestinian Testimony / Rebecca L. Stein 172
9. The Elisions of Televised Solidarity in the 2024 Lebanese Broadcast for Gaza / Hatim El-Hibri 187
10. Seeing Palestine, Not Seeing Palestinians/ Gaza in the British Pathe Lens / Shahd Abusalama 207
Afterword. Gaza Screened / Helga Tawil-Souri 231
Filmography 239
References 243
Contributors 265
Index 269

Additional information

GOR013900467
9781478020455
1478020458
Gaza on Screen by Nadia Yaqub
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Duke University Press
2023-08-02
296
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