Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma and Memory

Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma and Memory
ISBN-10
0748634096
ISBN-13
9780748634095
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2008-01-15
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Author
Nurith Gertz

Description

Although in recent years, the entire world has been increasingly concerned with the Middle East and Israeli-Palestinian relationship, there are few truly reliable sources of information regarding Palestinian society and culture, either concerning its relationship with Israeli society, its position between east and west or its stances in times of war and peace. One of the best sources for understanding Palestinian culture is its cinema which has devoted itself to serving the national struggle. In this book, two scholars--an Israeli and a Palestinian--in a rare and welcome collaboration, follow the development of Palestinian cinema, commenting on its response to political and social transformations. They discover that the more the social, political and economic conditions worsen and chaos and pain prevail, the more Palestinian cinema becomes involved with the national struggle. As expected, Palestinian cinema has unfolded its national narrative against the Israeli narrative, which tried to silence it.

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