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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823291203321

Autore

Marks Laura U. <1963->

Titolo

Hanan al-cinema : affections for the moving image / / Laura U. Marks

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; ; London, England : , : The MIT Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-262-33108-X

0-262-33107-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (413 p.)

Collana

Leonardo

Disciplina

791.430917/4927

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Arab countries - History - 21st century

Documentary films - Arab countries - History - 21st century

Motion picture industry - Arab countries - History - 21st century

Video art - Arab countries - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Cinematic Friendships; 2 The Language of Terrorism; 3 Arab Cinema Unfolds; 4 Mohamed Soueid's Cinema of Immanence; 5 Communism, Dream Deferred; 6 Can Cinema Slow the Flow of Blood?; 7 Asphalt Nomadism; 8 Archival Romances; 9 Hala Elkoussy; 10 Hassan Khan; 11 Mounir Fatmi; 12 Algorithm, Decryption, Glitch; 13 Images in Motion, from Haptic Vision to Networked Space; 14 Sherif El Azma: A Cinema of Cruelty; 15 What Can a Body Do?; Distributors; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An examination of experimental cinema and media art from the Arabic-speaking world that explores filmmakers' creative and philosophical inventiveness in trying times.