Arab Film and Video Manifestos: Forty-Five Years of the Moving Image Amid Revolution

ISBN-13: 9783319998008 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 150 str.

Kay Dickinson

Opis

This book presents, in their entirety, seven key documents that have fundamentally shaken up and helped change the face of image culture in the Middle East and beyond.

Spis treści

1. Why the Manifesto?

2. The Naksa’s New Cinema: New Cinema Group, “Manifesto of New Cinema in Egypt” (1968)

3. Cinematic Third Worldism: “Resolutions of the Third World Filmmakers Meeting” (Algeria, 1973)

4. Cinema within Armed Struggle: “Manifesto of the Palestinian Cinema Group” (1972) and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, “The Cinema and the Revolution”

5. The Images Are the Revolution’s”: Mosireen, “Revolution Triptych” (2013)

O autorze

Kay Dickinson is Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University, Canada. She is author of Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond (2016), as well as numerous articles on Arab film culture within such journals as Camera Obscura, Screen, Cinema Journal, and Framework. She co-edited The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity (2013), and co-wrote Film Studies: A Global Introduction (2016).