Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary

ISBN-13: 9780748696062 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 248 str.

Stefanie Van De Peer

Opis

In spite of harsh censorship, conservative morals and a lack of investment, women documentarists in the Arab world have found ways to subtly negotiate dissidence in their films, something that is becoming more apparent since the 'Arab Revolutions'. In this book, Stefanie Van de Peer traces the very beginnings of Arab women making documentaries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), from the 1970s and 1980s in Egypt and Lebanon, to the 1990s and 2000s in Morocco and Syria.
Supporting a historical overview of the documentary form in the Arab world with a series of in-depth case studies, Van de Peer looks at the work of pioneering figures like Ateyyat El Abnoudy, the 'mother of Egyptian documentary', Tunisia's Selma Baccar and the Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri. Addressing the context of the films' production, distribution and exhibition, the book also asks why these women held on to the ideals of a type of filmmaking that was unlikely to be accepted by the censor, and looks at precisely how the women documentarists managed to frame expressions of dissent with the tools available to the documentary maker.

Spis treści

List of Images; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Ateyyat El Abnoudy: Poetic Realism in Egyptian Documentaries; 2: Jocelyne Saab: Artistic-Journalistic Documentaries in Lebanese Times of War; 3: Selma Baccar: Nonfiction in Tunisia, the Land of Fictions; 4: Assia Djebar: Algerian images-son in Experimental Documentaries; 5: Mai Masri: Mothering Filmmakers in Palestinian Revolutionary Cinema; 6: Izza Génini: The Performance of Heritage in Moroccan Music Documentaries; 7: Hala Alabdallah Yakoub: Documentary as Poetic Subjective Experience in Syria; Works Cited