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Gaza on Screen
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2023
About this book
Gaza’s 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 screens—both large and small—as 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 Pathé 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 Screen demonstrates 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
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
Author / Editor information
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.
Reviews
“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 book’s 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
-- Inez Hedges Jump Cut
"This collection represents a labour of love amidst intensifying anti-Palestinian racism and a global outcry for Palestinian liberation and self-determination."
-- Joe Garrard Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
-- Joe Garrard Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television
"Gaza on Screen is an essential contribution to film and media studies, as well as Middle Eastern studies. It provides a nuanced and comprehensive analysis of Gaza’s representation on screen, offering valuable insights into the power of visual media to shape political narratives and influence public perception."
-- Jarvis Curry Alphaville
-- Jarvis Curry Alphaville
"Within a media and political landscape that threatens to silence stories of resilience and solidarity, Gaza on Screen offers a compelling compendium of texts for scholars engaged in studies of visual culture, ethnography, race and ethnicity, and rhetoric."
-- Michael Anthony Turcios Film Quarterly
-- Michael Anthony Turcios Film Quarterly
"The literature on Palestinian film and media is quickly growing, with new monographs appearing regularly. Still, Gaza on Screen clearly ranks at the top of these various offerings."
-- Greg Burris Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
-- Greg Burris Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Note on Transliteration
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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1 Gaza Filmmaking in a Palestinian Context A Gazan Filmmakers’ Roundtable
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2 Gazan Cinema as an Infrastructure of Care
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3 Found Footage as Counter-ethnography: Scenes from the Occupation in Gaza and the Films of Basma Alsharif
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4 Rendering Gaza Visible: The Visual Economy of the Nakba in Palestinian Films of the Oslo Period
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5 So Close, So Far: Gaza in Israeli Cinema
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6 Attending to the Fugitive: Resistance Videos from Gaza
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7 Sensory Politics of Return: Hearing Gaza under Siege
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8 How to Unsee Gaza Israeli Media, State Violence, Palestinian Testimony
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9 The Elisions of Televised Solidarity in the 2014 Lebanese Broadcast for Gaza
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10 Seeing Palestine, Not Seeing Palestinians Gaza in the British Pathé Lens
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Afterword: Gaza Screened
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Filmography
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References
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Contributors
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Index
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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
January 29, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781478093602
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook ISBN:
9781478093602
Keywords for this book
2024 Kraszna Krausz Moving Image Book Award Long List
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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