Arab Film and Video Manifestos Forty-Five Years of the Moving Image Amid Revolution /

• Main Author: Dickinson, Kay (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema
• Subjects: Motion pictures.; Ethnology-Middle East .; Middle East-Politics and government.; Cultural policy.; Global Cinema and TV.; Middle Eastern Culture.; Middle Eastern Politics.; Cultural Policy and Politics.

Arab Film and Video Manifestos presents, in their entirety, five key documents that have fundamentally shaken up and helped change the face of image culture in the Middle East and beyond. The book collects together, for the first time, these influential, collectively written calls and directives tha...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Why the Manifesto?
• 2. The Naksa's New Cinema: New Cinema Group, "Manifesto of New Cinema in Egypt" (1968)
• 3. Cinematic Third Worldism: "Resolutions of the Third World Filmmakers Meeting" (Algeria, 1973)
• 4. Cinema within Armed Struggle: "Manifesto of the Palestinian Cinema Group" (1972) and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, "The Cinema and the Revolution"
• 5. The Images Are the Revolution's": Mosireen, "Revolution Triptych" (2013).