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ReFocus : The Films of Jocelyne Saab: Films, Artworks and Cultural Events for the Arab World / Stefanie Van de Peer, Mathilde Rouxel.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDSPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) : 38 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474480413
  • 9781474480437
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430233092 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.3.S23 F56 2021eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

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In English.

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