Gaza on Screen

Gaza on Screen explores the practice, production, and impact of film and videos from and about the Gaza Strip, conceptualizing screens as tools for mediation with power. It includes visual material ranging from solidarity broadcasts to breaking news, and argues for a visual ecosystem in which differing types of film and video affect and inform each other.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 296 pages
Publication date: 02 August 2023
Publisher: Duke University Press

Gaza's long association with resistance and humanitarian need has resulted in a diverse and ever-evolving range of visual material, encompassing news reports, documentaries, essay films, militant videos, and solidarity images. The volume "Gaza on Screen" explores the practice, production, and impact of film and videos from and about the Gaza Strip, conceptualizing screens as tools for mediation that are imbued with power. The contributors, including scholars and Gazan filmmakers, examine Gazan film and video in relation to humanitarianism and human rights, care, community, environment, mobility, and decolonization. The volume includes a wide array of visual material, including solidarity broadcasts on Lebanese television, mid-twentieth-century British Pathé newsreels, and fiction films, as well as breaking news, visuals of contemporary militant resistance, documentaries, and found footage films. Through its exploration, "Gaza on Screen" demonstrates that screens shape and sustain relationships between Gaza and the world, and play a crucial role in sustaining the possibility of a different future.

The contributors to "Gaza on Screen" include Nayrouz Abu Hatoum, Shahd Abusalama, Samirah Alkassim, Basma Alsharif, Hadeel Assali, Azza El-Hassan, Hatim El-Hibri, Mohamed Jabaly, Ahmed Mansour, Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser, Kamran Rastegar, Viviane Saglier, Abdelsalam Shehada, Yaron Shemer, Rebecca L. Stein, Helga Tawil-Souri, Shaira Vadasaria, and Nadia Yaqub. Their diverse perspectives and expertise contribute to the volume's comprehensive exploration of Gazan film and video.

The volume's exploration of Gazan film and video is guided by the concept of screens as tools for mediation that are imbued with power. Screens play a crucial role in shaping and sustaining relationships between Gaza and the world, and in influencing the possibility of a different future. The contributors argue that screens shape and sustain relationships between Gaza and the world, and help to sustain the possibility of a different future.

The volume includes a wide array of visual material, including solidarity broadcasts on Lebanese television, mid-twentieth-century British Pathé newsreels, and fiction films, as well as breaking news, visuals of contemporary militant resistance, documentaries, and found footage films. Through its exploration, "Gaza on Screen" demonstrates that screens shape and sustain relationships between Gaza and the world, and play a crucial role in sustaining the possibility of a different future.

In conclusion, "Gaza on Screen" is a valuable contribution to the study of Gazan film and video, and to the broader field of media and cultural studies. The volume's exploration of Gazan film and video is guided by the concept of screens as tools for mediation that are imbued with power, and its contributors include scholars and Gazan filmmakers who offer diverse perspectives and expertise. The volume's wide array of visual material demonstrates that screens shape and sustain relationships between Gaza and the world, and play a crucial role in sustaining the possibility of a different future.

Weight: 474g
Dimension: 153 x 231 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781478020455