Annemarie Jacir
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ReFocus: The Films of Annemarie Jacir
Author: Stefanie Van de Peer
language: en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date: 2023-11-01
This book offers a transnational, internationalist-feminist approach to the oeuvre of award-winning director, writer, and curator, Annemarie Jacir.Palestinian film culture is unique due to its geopolitical circumstances, including continued colonialism and occupation, and the refugeeship of its citizens. The scholarship on the politics of film and its role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - including activist work, international solidarity films, and work on Palestinian documentaries - is usually defined by historical overviews of geopolitical events and developments. In contrast, this book offers an auteur-focused study of a global artist influenced by but not limited to the political discourse surrounding the Occupied Palestinian Territories.Jacir is a Palestinian woman whose work is recognised globally as innovative, politically challenging, and genre-crossing. The book offers an in-depth study of her films and other works by locating it in a geospatial, sociocultural, and critical theoretical framework. It critically analyses Annemarie Jacir's development as an artist, filmmaker, and curator of film.
Identity and the Dynamics of Border Crossing
The concept of identity is shaped by the experience of crossing borders. Whether moving between nations, cultures, languages, or social spaces, individuals are often compelled to renegotiate their identity in response to new environments and expectations. These transitions can lead to both conflict and growth in notions of self. The dynamics of border crossing reveal how identity is fluid, formed through interaction with shifting boundaries of belonging, power, and recognition. Exploring this intersection provides insight into the complex, evolving nature of personal and collective identity in a globalized world. Identity and the Dynamics of Border Crossing explores how individuals and communities grapple with questions of identity, displacement, and belonging in the postcolonial world. It examines the effects of border crossing, interrogating power structures like immigration laws, cultural dominance, and colonial histories. Covering topics such as cultural identity, border employment, and ethics and law, this book is an excellent resource for government officials, policymakers, sociologists, academicians, researchers, and scientists.
Crisis Cinema in the Middle East
Author: Shohini Chaudhuri
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date: 2022-06-16
In recent years, the Arab world and Iran have been afflicted by cataclysmic events, among them brutal state crackdowns of revolutions. Yet, filmmakers have persisted in their desire to tell their stories, against the odds, in creative acts that attest to their imagination, courage and resilience. In this book, Shohini Chaudhuri examines a broad range of films made during the tumultuous period since 2009, ranging from internationally award-winning festival favourites, such as For Sama (2019), Capernaum (2018) and Taxi Tehran (2015), to lesser-known films from the region. While freedom of expression is often understood through the lens of state censorship, she reveals the different types of obstacles that filmmakers face and their strategies for overcoming them so that those constraints are transformed into creative opportunities. Using her original interviews with filmmakers such as Waad al-Kateab, Yasmin Fedda, Larissa Sansour, Mani Haghighi and Ossama Mohammed, she identifies nine creative strategies for producing work under conditions of crisis. Chaudhuri argues that creativity is indelibly shaped by constraints, whether these are externally imposed by existing materials, funding and socio-political conditions, or self-imposed constraints, through choices of genre or acceptance of rules and responsibilities.She shows that the range of creative strategies emanating from the region is much wider than allegory and becoming ever more direct. She thus opens up new lines of inquiry into cinematic creativity in sites of conflict and crisis in the Middle East and beyond.