Refocus: the Films of Annemarie Jacir

This book takes a transnational, feminist approach to the oeuvre of Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir, focusing on her career and the visual representation of Palestine in the global perception of place. It offers a concrete description of a strong Arab woman filmmaker's career and interlaces Jacir's contemporary poetic/written, filmic/visual, and critical/curatorial work with historical and political theory. The book highlights Palestinian women directors and their contribution to the film culture, which often gets lost in the geopolitics of the region.

Format: Hardback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2023
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Takes a transnational, feminist approach to the oeuvre of Palestinian director, Annemarie Jacir.
An entirely different approach to Palestinian film culture, in that the focus on a singular woman filmmaker who works internationally informs our insights into the contemporary Arab world.
Rejection of the typical Western view that Arab cinema is a cinema of male auteurs, and instead offer a concrete description of a strong Arab woman filmmaker's career.
Interlace Jacir's contemporary poetic/written, her filmic/visual and her critical/curatorial work with historical and political theory.
Focused critical analysis of the visual representation of Palestine in the global perception of place.
Opens new vistas of discovery and interest into Palestinian film culture and its persistent focus on space and land.
With this book, we root our work in the geospatial reality of Palestinian film culture and move towards a deeper understanding of transnationalism, refugeeship, and the power of a global identity.
Draws attention to Palestinian women directors and their contribution, which often gets lost in the geopolitics.
Palestinian film culture is unique due to its geopolitical circumstances, including continued colonialism and occupation, and the refugeeship of its citizens.
The scholarship on the politics of film and its role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including activist work, international solidarity films, and work on Palestinian documentaries, is usually defined by historical overviews of geopolitical events and developments.
In contrast, this book offers an auteur-focused study of a global artist influenced by but not limited to the political discourse surrounding the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Jacir is a Palestinian woman whose work is recognised globally as innovative, political.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474480918