ReFocus: The Films of Jocelyne Saab: Films, Artworks and Cultural Events for the Arab World

Mathilde Rouxel; Stefanie Van de Peer

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2021

ReFocus

The Films of Jocelyne Saab: Films, Artworks and Cultural Events for the Arab World

Mathilde Rouxel and Stefanie Van de Peer

In the series ReFocus: The International Directors Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474480437

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About this book

Offers the first study about Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019), a Lebanese pioneer of Arab cinema

Offers a cohesive study of her oeuvre, both filmic, activist and artistic
Positions Saab’s work as central to the development of world cinema, and not only in the Arab world
Provides a comprehensive and fresh study of her work, bringing together scholars from across the globe

Jocelyne Saab was one of the most important female filmmakers pioneering a sense of international emancipatory world cinema from the early 1970s to her death in 2019. This book is the first English-language study dedicated to her entire oeuvre which consisted of journalism, documentaries, experimental and feature films, as well as photography, art exhibitions and curation, and film festival organisation.

In this book, a range of international scholars integrates her work into a cohesive study of all aspects of her oeuvre – filmic, activist and artistic – representing the global significance of Saab’s work and the ongoing resonance of her ideals and activism in a worldwide perspective.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction: A Synthesis and Testimony of Jocelyne Saab’s Life and Work Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Contributors Mathilde Rouxel and Stefanie Peer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Jocelyne Saab: Fifty Y ears of Creation in the Turmoil of Arab History
1. Telling the Tale of a World in Turmoil: Conversations with Jocelyne Saab Olivier Hadouchi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. On Representing the War as Rupture: Jocelyne Saab and New Lebanese Cinema (1975–90) Ghada Sayegh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. Jocelyne Saab’s Hanging Garden s: A Multimedia Architecture through Stories and Time Joan Grandjean Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4. A Filmmaker’s Words: A Journey through the Archive of Jocelyne Saab’s Unfinished Work Mathilde Rouxel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Part II Film as a Weapon against War and Oblivion
5. From Class Struggle to Sectarian Warfare: Jocelyne Saab’s Beirut Trilogy Giovanni Vimercati Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
6. Beirut, There Was and There Was Not Mark Westmoreland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
7. A Mother and Daughter Reunion: How Jocelyne Saab Shot her Last Documentary, My Name is Mei Shigenobu Yomota Inuhiko Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
8. Jocelyne Saab and CRIFFL: Dismantling Boundaries and Making New Routes for Asian Cinema in Lebanon Némésis Srour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Part III Liberating the People, Freeing the Body
9. Guerrillas, Border Crossings and Internationalism: The Liberation of Non-Arabs in Jocelyne Saab’s Early Documentaries Stefanie Peer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
10. ‘Talking about something much larger’: Script Development and Creating Metaphor and Meaning in Jocelyne Saab’s Dunia Margaret McVeigh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
11. The Feminist Cinema of Jocelyne Saab: Women’s Relationships and the Philosophy of Dance in Four Fiction Feature Films Maram Soboh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	174
12. Exile, Gender and Empowerment in Jocelyne Saab’s Films: Gender Café and One Dollar a Day Corinne Fortier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
13. Twilight Reflections in Single Frames and Short Sequences Samirah Alkassim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Part IV Advocating Poetry
14. A Suspended Life: A Cinematic Fall Marie Chebli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
15. The City of Disasters and Dreams: Experiencing Beirut and its Urban Geography in Light of Jocelyne Saab’s Beirut, My City and A Suspended Life Gregory Buchakjian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
16. Fiction and Voyeurisms: For a Fantasmatic History Léa Polverini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
17. Complete Catalogue of Jocelyne Saab’s Artistic Output Mathilde Rouxel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	282

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Other: 38 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474480437