Awards
- Winner of Media, Communication and Cultureal Studies Association Outstanding Achievement Awards: Monograph of the Year 2024
Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Iqra Shagufta Cheema (Assistant Professor in Humanities, Graceland University, Iowa) ,
Stefanie Van de Peer (Reader in Film & Media, Queen Margaret University)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474480918
ISBN 10: 1474480918
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 08 November 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
""This is a well-documented study which offers an intimate vision of the evolution of Jacir's film oeuvre, and how Palestinian cinema and audio-visual practices can become acts of resistance exposing the incongruous cultural memories of diverse Palestinian generations and their struggles for the homeland, freedom, and transnational identity in exile."" -Ihab Saloul, Author of Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination: Telling Memories
"""This is a well-documented study which offers an intimate vision of the evolution of Jacir's film oeuvre, and how Palestinian cinema and audio-visual practices can become acts of resistance exposing the incongruous cultural memories of diverse Palestinian generations and their struggles for the homeland, freedom, and transnational identity in exile."" -Ihab Saloul, Author of Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination: Telling Memories"
Author Information
Iqra Shagufta Cheema is an Assistant Professor in Humanities at Graceland University, Iowa. Stefanie Van de Peer is Reader in Film & Media at Queen Margaret University. She has published Negotiating Dissidence (EUP 2017), Women in African Cinema (Routledge 2020) and ReFocus: The Films of Annemarie Jacir (EUP 2023). She has also edited several edited collections on diverse topics including Jocelyne Saab’s work, Arab Stardom and Global Feminist Film Archives. She sits on the Executive Committee of the British Association of Film, TV and Screen Studies, is series editor for EUP’s ReFocus: The International Directors series, and is associate editor for the journal Studies in World Cinema.
