Overview
- The first book to assemble these essential documents in one convenient resource, some translated into English for the very first time
- Allows these documents to be examined in dialogue with one another in order to better grasp continuities and ruptures within the region’s political and cultural history
- Grounds these declarations within the struggles in which they adamantly aimed to participate as well as their broader social and political contexts
- Together, the primary sources and their analyses provide insight into both a series of significant film movements and culture’s role in social and political transfiguration
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema (PASTARCI)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Arab Film and Video Manifestos presents, in their entirety, five key documents that have fundamentally shaken up and helped change the face of image culture in the Middle East and beyond. The book collects together, for the first time, these influential, collectively written calls and directives that span a fifty-year period and hail from a range of different countries. Each urges a radical rethinking of film and video’s role in culture, its relation to politics, and its potential to instigate profound change. Kay Dickinson carefully positions the manifestos within their broader socio-historical contexts and provides supplementary reading and viewing suggestions for readers who cannot access Arabic-language sources.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Arab Film and Video Manifestos
Book Subtitle: Forty-Five Years of the Moving Image Amid Revolution
Authors: Kay Dickinson
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99801-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99800-8Published: 13 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99801-5Published: 30 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2731-4898
Series E-ISSN: 2731-4901
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 150
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Global Cinema and TV, Middle Eastern Culture, Middle Eastern Politics, Cultural Policy and Politics