[Commlist] New book: Struggling to be seen: The travails of Palestinian cinema

New book:
Struggling to be seen: The travails of Palestinian cinema

The book is available free under the Creative Commons license as a pdf 
for individuals, but please do consider supporting Daraja Press, a small 
publisher who have recently been praised for 'filling a niche' Daraja 
Press selected as "Publishing House Filling A Niche" - Daraja Press 
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Struggling to be seen: The travails of Palestinian cinema

*by Anandi Ramamurthy and Paul Kelemen*

The book explores the challenges Palestinian filmmakers confront to 
develop a cinema that gives expression to the national narrative. It is 
based on collaborative research involving Film Lab Palestine, Sheffield 
Palestine Cultural Exchange and Sheffield Hallam University. We explore 
the political, economic and cultural contexts that impact on Palestinian 
film production and some of the barriers encountered in profiling and 
screening Palestinian films, to shed light on the complex terrain that 
is traversed to sustain and develop a film industry and film culture in 
historic Palestine and beyond.


      *Praise for****/Struggling to be seen/*

To so nimbly and elegantly traverse Palestinian time and space is itself 
a defiance of the occupation’s brutally enforced barriers. The authors’ 
unstintingly political examination of Palestinian cinema has much to 
offer both those in the know and readers new to this extraordinary body 
of work. —*Kay Dickinson*, Professor, Film Studies, Concordia University

Working extensively through primary sources, conducting research and 
interviews across generations of Palestinian filmmakers, the authors 
offer the reader an ambitious and wide-ranging essay which charts the 
development of a national Palestinian cinema, from an historical and 
critical perspective. By exploring the constellation of political, 
social and aesthetic concerns that shape this cinema, these authors 
challenge us to rethink the stakes behind the contemporary development 
of a Palestinian cinema industry, its audience reception, in historic 
Palestine and beyond.—*Samia Labidi*, cultural programmer & artistic curator

Illuminating and compelling, /Struggling to be Seen/ lays bare the 
historical, enduring but also emerging (colonial and neocolonial) 
obstacles to the development of a film industry and film culture within 
the West Bank and Gaza. Though familiarly sobering (in its 
re-confirmation of the scale of injustice facing Palestinians), the book 
provides up-to-the-moment and an interdisciplinary account that provides 
rich, fresh terrain that reveals new and exciting progressions within 
Palestinian film culture. —*Michele Aaron*, Reader in Film and 
Television, University of Warwick, author of Death and the Moving Image: 
Ideology, Iconography and I (Edinburgh Univer- sity Press, 2014) 
Director, Screening Rights Film Festival.

/Struggling to be Seen/is a must read for those who are interested in 
under- standing the multilayered challenges that face Palestinian 
cinematography from its production phase to its screening phase. The 
book is a short read which takes the readers through the different 
stages which shaped the Palestinian film making enterprise./Struggling 
to be Seen/shows the restrictions that Palestinian filmmakers face from 
the initial stages to funding and screening. The authors tell a story of 
a people whose sense of self-reflection is suppressed by the Israeli 
oppressive machine which consantly works at erasing the Palestinian 
peoplehood, detaching it from its past.—*Nahed Habiballah*, Assistant 
Professor and member of the Board of Directors of Policy and Conflict 
Resolution Studies Center, Arab American University, Ramallah, Palestine


Order online by clicking the link below:
Struggling to be seen: The travails of Palestinian cinema - Daraja Press 
<https://darajapress.com/publication/struggling-to-be-seen-the-travails-of-palestinian-cinema>


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