ReFocus : : The Films of Jocelyne Saab: Films, Artworks and Cultural Events for the Arab World /

ReFocus : : The Films of Jocelyne Saab: Films, Artworks and Cultural Events for the Arab World / / Stefanie Van de Peer, Mathilde Rouxel.

Offers the first study about Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019), a Lebanese pioneer of Arab cinemaOffers a cohesive study of her oeuvre, both filmic, activist and artisticPositions Saab’s work as central to the development of world cinema, and not only in the Arab worldProvides a comprehensive and fresh stud...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
VerfasserIn:
Rouxel, Mathilde,
Van de Peer, Stefanie,
MitwirkendeR:
Alkassim, Samirah,
Buchakjian, Gregory,
Chebli, Marie,
Fortier, Corinne,
Grandjean, Joan,
Hadouchi, Olivier,
Inuhiko, Yomota,
McVeigh, Margaret,
Peer, Stefanie,
Polverini, Léa,
Rouxel, Mathilde,
Sayegh, Ghada,
Soboh, Maram,
Srour, Némésis,
Vimercati, Giovanni,
Westmoreland, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2021
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 38 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: A Synthesis and Testimony of Jocelyne Saab’s Life and Work
  • Contributors
  • Part I Jocelyne Saab: Fifty Y ears of Creation in the Turmoil of Arab History
  • 1. Telling the Tale of a World in Turmoil: Conversations with Jocelyne Saab
  • 2. On Representing the War as Rupture: Jocelyne Saab and New Lebanese Cinema (1975–90)
  • 3. Jocelyne Saab’s Hanging Garden s: A Multimedia Architecture through Stories and Time
  • 4. A Filmmaker’s Words: A Journey through the Archive of Jocelyne Saab’s Unfinished Work
  • Part II Film as a Weapon against War and Oblivion
  • 5. From Class Struggle to Sectarian Warfare: Jocelyne Saab’s Beirut Trilogy
  • 6. Beirut, There Was and There Was Not
  • 7. A Mother and Daughter Reunion: How Jocelyne Saab Shot her Last Documentary, My Name is Mei Shigenobu
  • 8. Jocelyne Saab and CRIFFL: Dismantling Boundaries and Making New Routes for Asian Cinema in Lebanon
  • Part III Liberating the People, Freeing the Body
  • 9. Guerrillas, Border Crossings and Internationalism: The Liberation of Non-Arabs in Jocelyne Saab’s Early Documentaries
  • 10. ‘Talking about something much larger’: Script Development and Creating Metaphor and Meaning in Jocelyne Saab’s Dunia
  • 11. The Feminist Cinema of Jocelyne Saab: Women’s Relationships and the Philosophy of Dance in Four Fiction Feature Films
  • 12. Exile, Gender and Empowerment in Jocelyne Saab’s Films: Gender Café and One Dollar a Day
  • 13. Twilight Reflections in Single Frames and Short Sequences
  • Part IV Advocating Poetry
  • 14. A Suspended Life: A Cinematic Fall
  • 15. The City of Disasters and Dreams: Experiencing Beirut and its Urban Geography in Light of Jocelyne Saab’s Beirut, My City and A Suspended Life
  • 16. Fiction and Voyeurisms: For a Fantasmatic History
  • 17. Complete Catalogue of Jocelyne Saab’s Artistic Output
  • Index

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