Dreams of a nation
Subtitle: [on Palestinian cinema
By: edited with an introduction by Hamid Dabashi ; preface by Edward Said].
Contributors: Dabashi, Hamid, 1951-
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781844670888
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Palestine
Notes: Filmography: p. [179]-203.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-208).
Table of contents: title: "For cultural purposes only" : curating a Palestinian film festival / Annemarie Jacir; title: The weapon of culture : cinema in the Palestinian liberation struggle / Joseph Massad; title: From reality to fiction : from poverty to expression / Michel Khleifi; title: Towards liberation : Michel Khleifi's Ma'loul and Canticle / Bashir Abu-Manneh; title: The cinema of displacment : gender, nation, and diaspora / Ella Shohat; title: Palestinian exilic cinema and film letters / Hamid Naficy; title: A letter from the rest of the world or "The Afghan Arabs" / Nizar Hassan; title: The challenges of Palestinian filmmaking (1990-2003) / In praise of frivolity : on the cinema of Elia Suleiman / Hamid Dabashi.