TY - BOOK AU - Rouxel,Mathilde AU - Alkassim,Samirah AU - Buchakjian,Gregory AU - Chebli,Marie AU - Fortier,Corinne AU - Grandjean,Joan AU - Hadouchi,Olivier AU - Inuhiko,Yomota AU - McVeigh,Margaret AU - Peer,Stefanie AU - Polverini,Léa AU - Rouxel,Mathilde AU - Sayegh,Ghada AU - Soboh,Maram AU - Srour,Némésis AU - Van de Peer,Stefanie AU - Vimercati,Giovanni AU - Westmoreland,Mark TI - ReFocus: The Films of Jocelyne Saab: Films, Artworks and Cultural Events for the Arab World T2 - ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS SN - 9781474480413 AV - PN1998.3.S23 F56 2021eb U1 - 791.430233092 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Motion picture producers and directors KW - Lebanon KW - Women motion picture producers and directors KW - Film, Media & Cultural Studies KW - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; Notes on Contributors --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction: A Synthesis and Testimony of Jocelyne Saab’s Life and Work --; Contributors --; Part I Jocelyne Saab: Fifty Y ears of Creation in the Turmoil of Arab History --; 1. Telling the Tale of a World in Turmoil: Conversations with Jocelyne Saab --; 2. On Representing the War as Rupture: Jocelyne Saab and New Lebanese Cinema (1975–90) --; 3. Jocelyne Saab’s Hanging Garden s: A Multimedia Architecture through Stories and Time --; 4. A Filmmaker’s Words: A Journey through the Archive of Jocelyne Saab’s Unfinished Work --; Part II Film as a Weapon against War and Oblivion --; 5. From Class Struggle to Sectarian Warfare: Jocelyne Saab’s Beirut Trilogy --; 6. Beirut, There Was and There Was Not --; 7. A Mother and Daughter Reunion: How Jocelyne Saab Shot her Last Documentary, My Name is Mei Shigenobu --; 8. Jocelyne Saab and CRIFFL: Dismantling Boundaries and Making New Routes for Asian Cinema in Lebanon --; Part III Liberating the People, Freeing the Body --; 9. Guerrillas, Border Crossings and Internationalism: The Liberation of Non-Arabs in Jocelyne Saab’s Early Documentaries --; 10. ‘Talking about something much larger’: Script Development and Creating Metaphor and Meaning in Jocelyne Saab’s Dunia --; 11. The Feminist Cinema of Jocelyne Saab: Women’s Relationships and the Philosophy of Dance in Four Fiction Feature Films --; 12. Exile, Gender and Empowerment in Jocelyne Saab’s Films: Gender Café and One Dollar a Day --; 13. Twilight Reflections in Single Frames and Short Sequences --; Part IV Advocating Poetry --; 14. A Suspended Life: A Cinematic Fall --; 15. The City of Disasters and Dreams: Experiencing Beirut and its Urban Geography in Light of Jocelyne Saab’s Beirut, My City and A Suspended Life --; 16. Fiction and Voyeurisms: For a Fantasmatic History --; 17. Complete Catalogue of Jocelyne Saab’s Artistic Output --; Index; restricted access N2 - Offers the first study about Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019), a Lebanese pioneer of Arab cinemaOffers a cohesive study of her oeuvre, both filmic, activist and artisticPositions Saab’s work as central to the development of world cinema, and not only in the Arab worldProvides a comprehensive and fresh study of her work, bringing together scholars from across the globeJocelyne Saab was one of the most important female filmmakers pioneering a sense of international emancipatory world cinema from the early 1970s to her death in 2019. This book is the first English-language study dedicated to her entire oeuvre which consisted of journalism, documentaries, experimental and feature films, as well as photography, art exhibitions and curation, and film festival organisation.In this book, a range of international scholars integrates her work into a cohesive study of all aspects of her oeuvre – filmic, activist and artistic – representing the global significance of Saab’s work and the ongoing resonance of her ideals and activism in a worldwide perspective UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474480437 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474480437 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781474480437/original ER -