Negotiating Dissidence

The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary

Bibliographic Data

ID9336573
AuthorsStefanie Van De Peer (0000-0003-3152-2912, corresponding author)
Year2017
Pages224
Publication date2017-01-04
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueNegotiating Dissidence (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherEdinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.3366/edinburgh/9780748696062.001.0001
OpenAlexW4235660433
ISBN9780748696062
Open LibraryOL28618577M
LanguageEN
Citations received7

In spite of harsh censorship, conservative morals and a lack of investment, women documentarists in the Arab world have found ways to subtly negotiate dissidence in their films, something that is becoming more apparent since the ‘Arab Revolutions’. In this book, Stefanie Van de Peer traces the very beginnings of Arab women making documentaries in the Middle East and North Africa, from the 1970s and 1980s in Egypt and Lebanon, to the 1990s and 2000s in Morocco and Syria. Addressing the context of the films’ production, distribution and exhibition, the book asks why these women held on to the ideals of a type of filmmaking that was unlikely to be accepted by the censor, and looks at precisely how the documentarists framed expressions of dissent with the tools available to the documentary maker

Archaeology · Art · Censorship · Context (archaeology · Dissent · Exhibition · Filmmaking · Media studies · Movie theater · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Visual arts · African history and culture studies · History · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Political and Social Issues · Arab · Documentary films · Dokumentarfilm · Film & Video · Filmregisseurin · History and criticism · Performing Arts · Political aspects · Women · Women motion picture producers and directors

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