Arab Cinema Travels
Subtitle: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond
Publisher: British Film Institute
Published: May 05, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9781844577859
Description: Offers a fascinating and expansive examination of Arab film culture in wider historical and geopolitical contexts. Centered on the movement of moving pictures, it explores the considerable impacts of travel and mobility on the nature of Arab cinema  from migration and expulsion, to pilgrimage and tourism. Starting with the inventive traditions of Arabic travelogues, the text traces the manifold pathways that converge in the cinemas of Syria, Palestine and Dubai. Syrian production bursts out of long-held practices of studying abroad, this time in the film schools of the Eastern Bloc. Palestinian movies react to international assumptions about the Holy Land, informed by pilgrimage accounts  ironizing the supposed freedoms of the road movie. Dubai launches its fledgling industry off the back of centuries' worth of trade route management, logistics expertise and labor migration. Contributing to the burgeoning field of transnational cinema studies, this compelling, buoyant and urgent text is essential reading for students of Film, Media Studies, Communication Studies, Arabic, Middle Eastern Studies and Tourism.
Notes: Source title: Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond (Cultural Histories of Cinema)