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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299997103321

Autore

Dickinson Kay

Titolo

Arab Film and Video Manifestos : Forty-Five Years of the Moving Image Amid Revolution / / by Kay Dickinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2018

ISBN

9783319998015

3-319-99801-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema

Disciplina

384.84

Soggetti

Motion pictures

Ethnology—Middle East 

Middle East—Politics and government

Cultural policy

Global Cinema and TV

Middle Eastern Culture

Middle Eastern Politics

Cultural Policy and Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Why the Manifesto? -- 2. The Naksa’s New Cinema: New Cinema Group, “Manifesto of New Cinema in Egypt” (1968) -- 3. Cinematic Third Worldism: “Resolutions of the Third World Filmmakers Meeting” (Algeria, 1973) -- 4. Cinema within Armed Struggle: “Manifesto of the Palestinian Cinema Group” (1972) and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, “The Cinema and the Revolution” -- 5. The Images Are the Revolution’s”: Mosireen, “Revolution Triptych” (2013).

Sommario/riassunto

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.