Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour

This book places long overdue focus on the Palestine solidarity films of two important Arab women directors whose cinematic works have never received due attention within the scholarly literature or the cultural public sphere. Through an analysis that situates these largely overlooked films within the matrix of an anti-Zionist critique of cinematic ontology, this book offers a materialist feminist appreciation of their political aesthetics while critiquing the ideological enabling conditions of their academic absenting. The study of these daring films fosters a much-needed, sustained understanding of the meaning and significance of Palestine solidarity filmmaking for and within the Arab world.

Analyzes two Palestine solidarity films directed by Arab Loutfi and two by Heiny Srour Engages the subject films in the context of public and scholarly debates concerning Zionism and film aesthetics Theorizes these films at the social ontological nexus of directorial positionality and cinematic structuration

Autorentext
Terri Ginsberg is assistant professor of film and media at Concordia University in Montréal. She is the author of Visualizing the Palestinian Struggle and Holocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology; co-author of Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema; and co-editor of Cinema of the Arab World and A Companion to German Cinema. She is a founding member of the Middle East Moving Image Collective (MEMIC). Her forthcoming edited collection looks at the governmentalization of international film education.

Zusammenfassung

"This reinsertion of the timelessness of the Palestinian struggle could not arrive at a more perilous but also potentially progressive moment. ... This monograph in its recalling of a revolutionary past that is still present, is an extraordinary intervention in and furthering of that moment." (Dennis Broe, Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World, Vol. 18 (2-3), 2024)

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Feminist Auratics and the Radical (Re)Envisioning of Revolutionary Militancy.- 3. Trauma Critiques the Cinematic Confessional.- 4. Conclusion.