Visualizing the Palestinian Struggle

Creates a theory of solidarity film applicable to and beyond the Palestinian case Offers new points of analysis on the PalestinianIsraeli conflict and its political spectrum from film studies, cultural studies, and political studies lenses alike Includes allegorical interludes focusing on films made by Palestinians themselves in Palestine

Autorentext

Terri Ginsberg is Assistant Professor of Film at The American University in Cairo. She is co-author of Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema; author of Holocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology; and co-editor of Perspectives on German Cinema and A Companion to German Cinema.

Klappentext

This book offers a much-needed focus on Palestine solidarity*films, 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 liberation. Visualizing the Palestinian Struggle analyzes Palestinian solidarity films hailing from countries such as Canada, the United Kingdom, Egypt, Iran, Palestine/Israel, Mexico, and the United States. Visualizing the Palestinian Struggle* is an effort to insist, constructively, upon a rectification and reversal of the glaring and disproportionate minimization and distortion of discourse critical of Zionism and Israeli policy in the cinematic and televisual public sphere.

Inhalt

Introduction Modalities of Solidarity.- Chapter One After Al-Aqsa.- Chapter Two Revisiting Prior Commitments.- Chapter Three Distant Neighbors.- Conclusion A Time for Change.