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Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond (Cultural Histories of Cinema)
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About Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational
Product Description Exploring the impact of travel on Arab cinema, Kay Dickinson reveals how the cinemas of Syria, Palestine and Dubai have been shaped by the history and politics of international circulation. This compelling book offers fresh insights into film, mobility and the Middle East. Review "Engaging and exceptionally well written, this is one of the most fascinating works of cinema studies, cultural history and cultural studies of the region that I have seen in recent years." Kamran Rastegar, Tufts University, USA "Sharp, to the point and highly enjoyable." Anastasia Valassopoulos, University of Manchester, UK" From the Back Cover More than simply a survey of film across the Arab region, Arab Cinema Travels offers a fascinating and expansive examination of Arab film culture in wider historical and geopolitical contexts. Centred 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 labour 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. About the Author Kay Dickinson is Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University. She is the author of Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together (2008), Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond (British Film Institute, 2016) and Arab Film and Video Manifestos: Forty-Five Years of the Moving Image Amid Revolution (2018).
