Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary

Stefanie Van de Peer

Open Access Published by Edinburgh University Press 2017

Negotiating Dissidence

The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary

Stefanie Van de Peer

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748696079

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The first book to trace the female pioneers of Arab documentary filmmaking

In spite of harsh censorship, conservative morals and a lack of investment, women documentarists in the Arab world have found ways to subtly negotiate dissidence in their films, something that is becoming more apparent since the ‘Arab Revolutions’. In this book, Stefanie Van de Peer traces the very beginnings of Arab women making documentaries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), from the 1970s and 1980s in Egypt and Lebanon, to the 1990s and 2000s in Morocco and Syria.

Supporting a historical overview of the documentary form in the Arab world with a series of in-depth case studies, Van de Peer looks at the work of pioneering figures like Ateyyat El Abnoudy, the ‘mother of Egyptian documentary’, Tunisia’s Selma Baccar and the Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri. Addressing the context of the films’ production, distribution and exhibition, the book also asks why these women held on to the ideals of a type of filmmaking that was unlikely to be accepted by the censor, and looks at precisely how the women documentarists managed to frame expressions of dissent with the tools available to the documentary maker.

Case studies include:

Egypt's Ateyyat El Abnoudy
Lebanon's Jocelyne Saab
Algeria's Assia Djebar
Tunisia's Selma Baccar
Palestine's Mai Masri
Morocco's Izza Génini
Syria's Hala Alabdallah Yakoub

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
1 Ateyyat El Abnoudy: Poetic Realism in Egyptian Documentaries Open Access Download PDF	28
2 Jocelyne Saab: Artistic-Journalistic Documentaries in Lebanese Times of War Open Access Download PDF	55
3 Selma Baccar: Non-fiction in Tunisia, the Land of Fictions Open Access Download PDF	83
4 Assia Djebar: Algerian Images-son in Experimental Documentaries Open Access Download PDF	110
5 Mai Masri: Mothering Film-makers in Palestinian Revolutionary Cinema Open Access Download PDF	140
6 Izza Génini: The Performance of Heritage in Moroccan Music Documentaries Open Access Download PDF	168
7 Hala Alabdallah Yakoub: Documentary as Poetic Subjective Experience in Syria Open Access Download PDF	194
Works Cited Open Access Download PDF	225
Index Open Access Download PDF	233

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 248
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: March 21, 2017
ISBN: 9780748696079