This book offers a much-needed focus on Palestine solidarityfilms, supplying a critical theoretical framework whose intellectual thrust is rooted in the challenges facing scholars censored for attempting to rectify and reverse the silencing of a subject matter about which much of the world would remain uninformed without cinematic and televisual mediation. Its innovative focus on Palestine solidarity films spans a selected array of works which began to emerge during the 1970s, made by directors located outside Palestine/Israel who professed support for Palestinian...
This book offers a much-needed focus on Palestine solidarityfilms, supplying a critical theoretical framework whose intellectual thrust is ...
This volume explores the ways films made by Latin American directors and/or co-produced in Latin American countries have employed the road movie genre to address the reconfiguration of the geographical, sociopolitical, economic, and cultural landscape of Latin America.
This volume explores the ways films made by Latin American directors and/or co-produced in Latin American countries have employed the road movie genre...
Focuses specifically on video as a central medium for both archiving events and experimenting with modes of representation and reception, and studies not only on how artists and documentarians record political, social, and economic conditions, but also how feminist politics are mediated in culture.
Focuses specifically on video as a central medium for both archiving events and experimenting with modes of representation and reception, and studies ...
Using case studies from Nigeria, Qatar, the United States, the West Indies, and others, the contributors to this volume examine aspects such as audience response, film education for children, and the impact on crime in the various studios, clubs, film festivals, NGOs, peripatetic workshops, and alternative film schools where filmmaking is taught.
Using case studies from Nigeria, Qatar, the United States, the West Indies, and others, the contributors to this volume examine aspects such as audien...
Combining a diverse range of case studies with discussion between leading scholars in star studies and transnational cinema, this book analyzes stars as sites of cross-cultural contestation and the essays in this collection explore how the plasticity of stars helps disparate peoples manage the shifting ideologies of a transnational world.
Combining a diverse range of case studies with discussion between leading scholars in star studies and transnational cinema, this book analyzes stars ...
Conceptualizing production studies from a European perspective, the book evaluates the history of European thought on production: theories of practice, the languages, grammars, and poetics of film, practical theories of production systems such as film dramaturgy, and the self-theorizing of European auteurs and professionals.
Conceptualizing production studies from a European perspective, the book evaluates the history of European thought on production: theories of practice...
Examining the vast breadth and diversity of contemporary documentary production, while also situating nonfiction film and video within the cultural, political, and socio-economic history of the region, this book addresses topics such as documentary aesthetics, indigenous media, and transnational filmmaking, among others.
Examining the vast breadth and diversity of contemporary documentary production, while also situating nonfiction film and video within the cultural, p...
The contributors aim to consider how frequently 19th-century narratives of female prostitution-hence the label `fallen women'-are still recycled in contemporary visual contexts, and to understand how widespread, and in what contexts, the destigmatization of female sex work is underway on screen.
The contributors aim to consider how frequently 19th-century narratives of female prostitution-hence the label `fallen women'-are still recycled in co...
