The Films of Annemarie Jacir

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by Iqra Shagufta Cheema and Stefanie Van de Peer

Type

Film Reviews

Subject

Director > Annemarie Jacir

Keywords

Annemarie Jacir, Palestine

Publishing date

2025 (August 29, 2025)

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Collection

ReFocus: The International Directors Series

1st publishing

2023

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 160 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4744-8092-5

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Book Presentation:
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.

About the authors:
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

Press Reviews:
Cheema and Van de Peer expertly illuminate Annemarie Jacir’s engagement with the complexity of the Palestinian experience as it traverses questions of memory, space and the transnational. The book pays homage to Jacir’s cinematic contribution as film editor, writer, producer and facilitator and perceptively traces the struggles and pleasures involved in the creation of a committed and aesthetically ambitious Palestinian cinema. -- Anastasia Valassopoulos, University of Manchester

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

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