ReFocus : : The Films of Jocelyne Saab: Films, Artworks and Cultural Events for the Arab World / / Stefanie Van de Peer, Mathilde Rouxel.

Offers the first study about Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019), a Lebanese pioneer of Arab cinemaOffers a cohesive study of her oeuvre, both filmic, activist and artisticPositions Saab’s work as central to the development of world cinema, and not only in the Arab worldProvides a comprehensive and fresh stud...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 38 B/W illustrations
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
List of Figures --
Notes on Contributors --
Acknowledgements --
Introduction: A Synthesis and Testimony of Jocelyne Saab’s Life and Work --
Contributors --
Part I Jocelyne Saab: Fifty Y ears of Creation in the Turmoil of Arab History --
1. Telling the Tale of a World in Turmoil: Conversations with Jocelyne Saab --
2. On Representing the War as Rupture: Jocelyne Saab and New Lebanese Cinema (1975–90) --
3. Jocelyne Saab’s Hanging Garden s: A Multimedia Architecture through Stories and Time --
4. A Filmmaker’s Words: A Journey through the Archive of Jocelyne Saab’s Unfinished Work --
Part II Film as a Weapon against War and Oblivion --
5. From Class Struggle to Sectarian Warfare: Jocelyne Saab’s Beirut Trilogy --
6. Beirut, There Was and There Was Not --
7. A Mother and Daughter Reunion: How Jocelyne Saab Shot her Last Documentary, My Name is Mei Shigenobu --
8. Jocelyne Saab and CRIFFL: Dismantling Boundaries and Making New Routes for Asian Cinema in Lebanon --
Part III Liberating the People, Freeing the Body --
9. Guerrillas, Border Crossings and Internationalism: The Liberation of Non-Arabs in Jocelyne Saab’s Early Documentaries --
10. ‘Talking about something much larger’: Script Development and Creating Metaphor and Meaning in Jocelyne Saab’s Dunia --
11. The Feminist Cinema of Jocelyne Saab: Women’s Relationships and the Philosophy of Dance in Four Fiction Feature Films --
12. Exile, Gender and Empowerment in Jocelyne Saab’s Films: Gender Café and One Dollar a Day --
13. Twilight Reflections in Single Frames and Short Sequences --
Part IV Advocating Poetry --
14. A Suspended Life: A Cinematic Fall --
15. The City of Disasters and Dreams: Experiencing Beirut and its Urban Geography in Light of Jocelyne Saab’s Beirut, My City and A Suspended Life --
16. Fiction and Voyeurisms: For a Fantasmatic History --
17. Complete Catalogue of Jocelyne Saab’s Artistic Output --
Index
Summary:Offers the first study about Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019), a Lebanese pioneer of Arab cinemaOffers a cohesive study of her oeuvre, both filmic, activist and artisticPositions Saab’s work as central to the development of world cinema, and not only in the Arab worldProvides a comprehensive and fresh study of her work, bringing together scholars from across the globeJocelyne 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.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781474480437
9783110753790
9783110754032
9783110754001
9783110753776
9783110780406
DOI:10.1515/9781474480437
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Stefanie Van de Peer, Mathilde Rouxel.