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Resistance, Dissidence, Revolution: Documentary Film Esthetics in the Middle East and North Africa

Resistance, Dissidence, Revolution: Documentary Film Esthetics in the Middle East and North Africa

Shafik, Viola

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Middle East Film and Media

Film StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032151897
ISBN13: 9781032151892
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 31 2023
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Situated within an emerging academic interest in documentary film in the Middle East and North Africa, this book studies the development of diverse documentary forms in relation to revolutionary and emancipatory movements that took place across the twentieth century in the so-called Arab World.

Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari's image of a rhizome, the author takes a de-territorialized approach to revolutionary filmmaking, embracing the diversity and fluidity of revolutionary works in the Arab World. As well as outlining the documentary film histories of the main film-producing nations of the region - Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco - the book analyzes the formal and esthetic features of individual works in relation to specific socio-political historical developments. Topics addressed include de-colonization, the wars of liberation, the Tricontinental movement, the Palestinian question, the Rif Uprising, the Leaden and Black Years, civil war in Lebanon, the recent Arab revolutions, state authoritarianism and totalitarianism, gender, collectivism and political subjectivity. Ultimately, the book contributes to a general theory of revolutionary documentary film forms by studying the works of consecutive periods from different ideological contexts.

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