Histories and Structures : 1. Tracing Early News Cinema through the Pages of Egyptian Magazine al-Suwar / al-Mutaharrika Mohannad Ghawanmeh -- 2. Documenting Lebanon / Mohamad Soueid-- 3. Documentary Filmmaking in Iraq / Ali Abdulameer -- 4. Palestine Fights: Behind the Scenes of PLO-GDR Cooperation in Filmmaking / Irit Neidhardt -- 5. Documents Without Documentaries: Filmmaking in Postrevolutionary Tunisia / Nouri Gana -- 6. Algerian War for Independence: Documentaries Questioning History / Ahmed Bedjaoui -- 7. A Brief History of Documentary Film in Morocco / Ali Essafi -- 8. Funding the "Creative Documentary": An Art Cinema of Refugees / Kay Dickinson and Viviane Saglier -- 9. Arab Documentary Landscapes: Transnational Flow of Solidarity at Festivals / Stefanie Van de Peer -- Aesthetics/Politics of Representation : 10. Negative/Positive: Newsreels in Nasserite Egypt and the Crafting of National Identity / Yasmin Desouki -- 11. From Poetics of Revolution to the Poetics of the Human: Voice-over in Egyptian Documentary, 1956-82 / Viola Shafik -- 12. From Silhouettes to Superstars: Documenting HIV/AIDS in Egyptian Cinema / Hend F. Alawadhi -- 13. Me and Not Me: The Personal-collective Voice of First-person Films from the Egyptian Revolution / Alisa Lebow -- 14. Gardening a Pitiless Mountain: Transcript of a Lecture Performance, 2011 / Oraib Toukan -- 15. The Arab-Jew and the Inscription of Memory / Ella Shohat -- 16. Lacan, Sontag and Israel on Screen / Hanan Toukan -- 17. Political Issues in Tunisian Women's Cinema / Mathilde Rouxel -- 18. Memories and Legacies of Algerian Women's Struggles During and After Independence / Olivier Hadouchi -- 19. Spaces of Dispossession: Experiments with the Real in Contemporary Algerian Cinema / Peter Limbrick -- 20. The Daring Lyrics of Women Music Documentary Filmmakers in the Maghreb / Florence Martin -- 21. Three Hundred Kilometers South of Marrakech: Imider, Artivism, and the Environmental Documentary in Morocco / Jamal Bahmad -- 22. Screen Fighters: Filming and Killing in Contemporary Syria / Donatella Della Ratta -- Filmmakers and Individual Works : 23. Jean Chamoun and Lebanon's Suspended History / Hady Zaccak -- 24. Paper Airplanes: An Interview with Akram Zaatari / Dore Bowen -- 25. Catastrophe and Post-Catastrophe in the Films of Kamal Aljafari / Nadia Yaqub -- 26. Syria Portrayed in Two Documentaries by Omar Amiralay / Ahmad Izzo -- 27. The Berlin Ashlaa Incident: A Letter to Filmmaker Hakim Belabbes / Stefan Pethke -- 28. The UAE's Nujoom Alghanem: The Past, the Present, the Nation, and the Individual / Alia Yunis -- 29. Iraq War Home Movies: Abbas Fahdel's Slow Documentary Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) / Shohini Chaudhuri.
Summary:
"While many of the Arab documentary films that emerged after the digital turn in the 1990s have been the subject of close scholarly and media attention, far less well studied is the immense wealth of Arab documentaries produced during the celluloid era. These ranged from newsreels to information, propaganda, and educational films, travelogues, as well as more radical, artistic formats, such as direct cinema and film essays. This collected volume sets out to examine the long history of Arab nonfiction filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa across a range of national trajectories and documentary styles, from the early twentieth century to the present. -- Documentary Filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa traces the historical development of documentary filmmaking with an eye to the widely varied socio-political, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural contexts in which the films emerged. Thematically, the contributions provide insights into a whole range of relevant issues, both theoretical and historical, such as structural development and state intervention, formats and aesthetics, new media, politics of representation, auteurs, subjectivity, minority filmmaking, 'Artivism,' and revolution." (from the publisher)
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