Negotiating dissidence : the pioneering women of Arab documentary / Stefanie Van de Peer.
Van de Peer, Stefanie| Call Number | 070.18174927 |
| Author | Van de Peer, Stefanie, author. |
| Title | Negotiating dissidence : the pioneering women of Arab documentary / Stefanie Van de Peer. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (238 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Feb 2018). |
| Summary | 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.<br><br>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. |
| Subject | Documentary films Middle East History and criticism. Documentary films Africa, North History and criticism. Women motion picture producers and directors Africa, North History. Women motion picture producers and directors Middle East History. Censorship Middle East History. Censorship Africa, North History. |
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| Summary | 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.<br><br>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. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 23 Feb 2018). |
| Subject | Documentary films Middle East History and criticism. Documentary films Africa, North History and criticism. Women motion picture producers and directors Africa, North History. Women motion picture producers and directors Middle East History. Censorship Middle East History. Censorship Africa, North History. |
| Multimedia |