Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video

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by Kristin Lené Hole

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > Middle East

Keywords

Middle East, Palestine, experimental

Publishing date

2024

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

Routledge Focus on Film Studies

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Hardcover • 130 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-032-75539-7

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Book Presentation:
Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video focuses on an underexamined group of female Palestinian filmmakers, highlighting their relevance for thinking through a diverse set of issues relating to decolonial aesthetics, post-nationalism and gender, non-Western ecologies, trauma and memory, diasporic experiences of space, biopolitics, feminist historiography and decolonial temporalities.

Positing that these filmmaker-artists radically counter dominant media images of Palestinians, deessentializing Palestinian identity while opening up history and the present to new potentialities and ways of imagining Palestinian futures, Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video argues that Palestinian experience is urgently relevant to all of us. As the works address issues of food availability and land use, environmental collapse and forced displacement, Hole explores how such films generate hope, imagine impossible possibilities and offer inspiration and wisdom when it comes to losing and rebuilding.

Addressing a fundamentally transnational and understudied area, this book will resonate with readers working in the areas of film and media studies, Palestinian cultural studies, historiography, Middle East studies and experimental film.

About the Author:
Kristin Lené Hole is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the School of Film at Portland State University, USA. She is the author of Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics: Claire Denis, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Luc Nancy.

See the publisher website: Routledge