An atonal cinema : resistance, counterpoint and dialogue in transnational Palestine / Robert G. White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, Robert G. (Lecturer in media and communication), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Palestine.

Motion pictures.

Palestine--In motion pictures.

Palestine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, [2023]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This is a book about Palestinians elsewhere and Palestinian elsewheres. Articulating an ambiguous right to remain out-of-place as a spatialized response to the fossilized present, the films and filmmakers in this book examine Palestine, as a place and idea, from the dissonance of exile. An Atonal Cinema: Resistance, Counterpoint and Dialogue in Transnational Palestine theorizes a transnational consciousness within contemporary Palestinian cinema as one which articulates an 'atonal' cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance with which to respond critically to the 'place-myth' of Palestine in films produced within Palestine but without Palestinians. Drawing on a genealogy of Edward Said's atonal thinking of counterpoint, I argue that the films in this book display a 'double-consciousness', through which Palestine is simultaneously elided and re-inscribed in a contrapuntal dialogue between the 'here' of its contemporary reality and the 'elsewhere' of its historical image. An Atonal Cinema 's radical approach includes cinematic texts from Europe, South America and Israel in its corpus, which have both triggered and been shaped by critical responses in contemporary Palestinian Cinema. Drawing on both literature and cinema, An Atonal Cinema draws on the work of Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Jean Genet and Carlo Levi. Films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Luc Godard, Menahem Golan and Miguel Littín are read contrapuntally through contemporary responses from Ayreen Anastas, Basma Alsharif, Mohanad Yaqubi, Elia Suleiman and Kamal Aljafari.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction Writing back: Edward Said, contrapuntalism and the 'Image of Palestine'

1 Between here and elsewhere: Godard, Genet and the resistance of image in contemporary Palestinian cinema

2 Between presence and absence: Remnants and revenants in the cinema of the interior

3 Between diaspora and exile: Palestine, Chile and the cinema of Miguel Littín

4 Between Basilicata and Bethlehem: Pasolini, Palestine and the non-European

5 Towards a post-Palestinian cinema: Imagining states of being beyond the status quo

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: White, Robert G. An Atonal Cinema

ISBN:

9781501385001

1501385003

9781501384998

1501384996

OCLC:

1375566757