Overview

Jocelyne Saab was one of the most important female filmmakers pioneering a sense of international emancipatory world cinema from the early 1970s to her death in 2019. This book is the first English-language study dedicated to her entire oeuvre which consisted of journalism, documentaries, experimental and feature films, as well as photography, art exhibitions and curation, and film festival organisation. In this book, a range of international scholars integrates her work into a cohesive study of all aspects of her oeuvre filmic, activist and artistic representing the global significance of Saab's work and the ongoing resonance of her ideals and activism in a worldwide perspective.

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Author:   Mathilde Rouxel (researcher, New Sorbonne University) ,  Stefanie Van de Peer (Reader in Film & Media, Queen Margaret University)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9781474480420

ISBN 10:   147448042
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   24 February 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsList of Images Introduction: A Synthesis and Testimony of Jocelyne Saab’s Life and Work - Mathilde Rouxel and Stefanie Van de Peer PART 1 - JOCELYNE SAAB: 50 YEARS OF CREATION IN THE TURMOIL OF ARAB HISTORY 1. Telling the Tale of a World in Turmoil: Conversations with Jocelyne Saab - Olivier Hadouchi 2. On Representing the War as Rupture: Jocelyne Saab and New Lebanese Cinema (1975-1990) - Ghada Sayegh 3. Jocelyne Saab's Hanging Gardens: A Multimedia Architecture through Stories and Time - Joan Grandjean 4. A Filmmaker’s Words: A Journey Through the Archive of Jocelyne Saab’s Unfinished Work - Mathilde Rouxel PART 2 - FILM AS A WEAPON AGAINST WAR AND OBLIVION 5. From Class Struggle to Sectarian Warfare: Jocelyne Saab’s Beirut Trilogy - Giovanni Vimercati 6. Beirut, There Was and There Was Not - Mark Westmoreland 7. A Mother and Daughter Reunion: How Jocelyne Saab shot her last documentary My Name is Mei Shigenobu - Yomota Inuhiko 8. Jocelyne Saab and CRIFFL: Dismantling Boundaries and Making New Routes for Asian Cinema in Lebanon - Nemesis Srour PART 3 - LIBERATING THE PEOPLE, FREEING THE BODY 9. Guerrillas, Border Crossings and Internationalism: The Liberation of Non-Arabs in Jocelyne Saab’s Early Documentaries - Stefanie Van de Peer 10. ""Talking about Something much Larger"": Script Development and Creating Metaphor and Meaning in Jocelyne Saab’s Dunia (2005) - Margaret McVeigh 11. The Feminist Cinema of Jocelyne Saab: Women’s Relationships and the Philosophy of Dance in Four Feature Fiction Films - Maram Soboh 12. Exile, Gender and Empowerment in Jocelyne Saab’s Films: Le Café du Genre and One Dollar a Day - Corinne Fortier 13. Twilight Reflections in Single Frames and Short Sequences - Samirah Alkassim PART 4 - ADVOCATING POETRY 14. A Suspended Life: A Cinematic Fall - Marie Chebli 15. The City of Disasters and Dreams: Experiencing Beirut and its Urban Geography in light of Jocelyne Saab’s Beyrouth ma ville and Ghazl el Banat - Gregory Buchakjian 16. Fiction and Voyeurisms: For a Fantasmatic History - Léa Polverini 17. Catalogue of Jocelyne Saab’s Artistic Output - Mathilde Rouxel

Reviews

""This tantalizing compilation of a great variety of authors and perspectives, well-informed and original, rightly mirrors the multi-faceted and challenging oeuvre of Lebanese artist-filmmaker Jocelyne Saab and her truly global and internationalist stature."" -Viola Shafik, filmmaker

"""This tantalizing compilation of a great variety of authors and perspectives, well-informed and original, rightly mirrors the multi-faceted and challenging oeuvre of Lebanese artist-filmmaker Jocelyne Saab and her truly global and internationalist stature."" -Viola Shafik, filmmaker"

Author Information

Dr Mathilde Rouxel is a researcher at the New Sorbonne University, and an independent curator, specialising in Arab cinema 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.

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