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Hanan al-cinema : affections for the moving image /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marks, Laura U., 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]
Series:Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Arab countries > History > 21st century.
Documentary films > Arab countries > History > 21st century.
Motion picture industry > Arab countries > History > 21st century.
Video art > Arab countries > 21st century.
Documentary films.
Motion picture industry.
Motion pictures.
Video art.
Arab countries.
2000 - 2099
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Cinematic friendships : intercessors, collectives, perturbations
  • The language of terrorism : Elia Suleiman's film practice
  • Arab cinema unfolds
  • Mohamed Soueid's cinema of immanence
  • Communism, dream deferred
  • Can cinema slow the flow of blood?
  • Asphalt nomadism
  • Archival romances
  • Hala Elkoussy : framing chaos
  • Hassan Khan : the social contract
  • Mounir Fatmi : protective aniconism
  • Algorithm, decryption, glitch
  • Images in motion, from haptic vision to networked space
  • Sherif El Azma : a cinema of cruelty
  • What can a body do?