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Book SynopsisContributors to Gaza on Screen, including scholars and Gazan filmmakers, explore the practice, production, and impact of film and videos from and about the Gaza Strip.
Trade Review“
Gaza on Screen is a groundbreaking text that considers Gaza filmmaking, cinema, and visual production. Its contributors include key Palestinian, especially Gazan, thinkers and artists. The collection offers original, deeply engaging, and often captivating conversations and analysis.” -- Frances S. Hasso, author of * Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine *
Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction / Nadia Yaqub 1
1. Gaza Filmmaking in a Palestinian Context: A Gazan Filmmakers’ Roundtable / Basma Alsharif, Azza El-Hassan, Mohamed Jabaly, Ahmed Mansour, Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser, and Abdelsalam Shehada (Editing and commentary by Nadia Yaqub with an introduction by Azza El-Hassan) 29
2. Gazan Cinema as an Infrastructure of Care / Viviane Saglier 50
3. Found Footage as Counter-ethnography:
Scenes from the Occupation of Gaza and the Films of Basma Alsharif / Samirah Alkassim 71
4. Rendering Gaza Visible: The Visual Economy of the Nakba in Palestinian Films of the Oslo Period / Kamran Rastegar 92
5. So Close, So Far: Gaza in Israeli Cinema / Yaron Shemer 114
6. Attending to the Fugitive: Resistance Videos from Gaza / Nayrouz Abu Hatoum and Hadeel Assali 136
7. Sensory Politics of Return: Hearing Gaza under Siege / Shaira Vadasaria 157
8. How to Unsee Gaza: Israeli Media, State Violence, Palestinian Testimony / Rebecca L. Stein 172
9. The Elisions of Televised Solidarity in the 2024 Lebanese Broadcast for Gaza / Hatim El-Hibri 187
10. Seeing Palestine, Not Seeing Palestinians/ Gaza in the British Pathé Lens / Shahd Abusalama 207
Afterword. Gaza Screened / Helga Tawil-Souri 231
Filmography 239
References 243
Contributors 265
Index 269
