Shahd Abusalama

Between Reality and Documentary

A Historical Representation of Gaza Refugees in Colonial, Humanitarian and Palestinian Documentary Film
Herausgeber: Matar, Dina; Hanieh, Adam

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates representations of Palestinian refugees in Gaza in colonial, humanitarian and Palestinian documentary films, spanning until the 1993 Oslo Agreement. Chapters examine various film sources throughout this period including British Pathé, newsreels, Quaker and UNRWA documentaries, and Palestinian opposition cinema. British Pathé is considered as a window into the wider colonial depiction of indigenous Palestinians in the British Mandate period; newsreels are examined as representations of the plight of Palestinian refugees in Gaza after Israel's proclamation and Gaza-focused humanitarian documentaries shot by the Quakers and UNRWA are compared. The final chapters trace the evolution of oppositional documentary filmmaking, from the cinema of revolution (1968-1982) to the peace deal of 1993. Through a close audio-visual and textual analysis, rooted in a historical-contextual approach, Shahd Abusalama explores the techniques used to project emancipatory representations while highlighting shifts and variations in the imagery around Gaza refugees. In exploring the historical, ideologically fuelled, representations of Gaza and its refugees in colonial and humanitarian films, and the opposition to it, this book reaffirms the continuity of Palestinian resistance, refugees' call for return, and the importance of Gaza itself to the Palestinian struggle.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780755653102
• ISBN-10: 0755653106
• Artikelnr.: 71615437

Autorenporträt

Shahd Abusalama

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Figures Chronology of key events Introduction The Author's
Positionality: And Still They Dance (2012) Why Gaza? Historicising the
Plight of Palestinian Refugees in Gaza Theoretical Approaches The
Representation of Palestine in Film: A Historical Review Methods and
Selection Overall structure of the Book 1. The Presence and Absence of
Palestinians in Films During the British Mandate: The Case of British Pathé
Introduction British Pathé and the British Empire British Pathé's First
Documentaries on Palestine The Palestinian Great Revolt (1936-1939) The End
of the Mandate, 1946-1948: A Change or More of the Same? Conclusion 2.
Gaza's Palestinian Refugees Through the Pathé Lens Introduction Pathé and
the Nakba The Absent Presence of Gaza in 1940s Newsreels 1955-1957: Gaza
and the Suez Crisis The First Occupation of Gaza, 1956-1957 The Israeli
Military Occupation of 1967 Conclusion 3. Humanitarian Representations of
Gaza refugees: The Quakers' Case Introduction Historicising The Early
Plight of Palestinian Refugees in Gaza (1948-1950) The Quakers in Gaza:
Western Humanitarianism Versus the Desire for Return The AFSC Documentary
Film Palestine (1949) Conclusion 4. Western Humanitarianism and the UNRWA
Visual Image Introduction Western Humanitarianism and Images of Suffering
UNRWA in Gaza and the Politics of the Archive Inviting Sympathy in Sands of
Sorrow (1950) Conclusion 5. Gaza Refugees in the Cinema of Revolution
(1968-1982) Introduction The Palestinian Cinema of Revolution Scenes from
the Occupation in Gaza (1973) Conclusion 6. Gaza Refugees in Palestinian
Filmmaking, 1982-1993 Introduction Fourth Period Cinema: Post-Revolution
Cinema? Gaza from the 1980s to 1993 Gaza Ghetto (1985) Filmmakers of the
First Intifada in Gaza 225 Palestinian Diaries (1991) 227 Conclusion 236
Conclusion 238 Bibliography Cited Filmography