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Hanan al-cinema [electronic resource] : affections for the moving image / Laura U. Marks.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: LeonardoPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2015]Description: xii, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780262029308 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.430917/4927 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.A65 M37 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction -- Cinematic friendships: intercessors, collectives, perturbations -- The language of terrorism: Elia Suleiman's film practice -- Arab cinema unfolds -- Mohamed Soueid's cinema of immanence -- Communism, dream deferred -- Can cinema slow the flow of blood? -- Asphalt nomadism -- Archival romances -- Hala Elkoussy: framing chaos -- Hassan Khan: the social contract -- Mounir Fatmi: protective aniconism -- Algorithm, decryption, glitch -- Images in motion, from Haptic vision to networked space -- Sherif El-Azma: a cinema of cruelty -- What can a body do?

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Cinematic friendships: intercessors, collectives, perturbations -- The language of terrorism: Elia Suleiman's film practice -- Arab cinema unfolds -- Mohamed Soueid's cinema of immanence -- Communism, dream deferred -- Can cinema slow the flow of blood? -- Asphalt nomadism -- Archival romances -- Hala Elkoussy: framing chaos -- Hassan Khan: the social contract -- Mounir Fatmi: protective aniconism -- Algorithm, decryption, glitch -- Images in motion, from Haptic vision to networked space -- Sherif El-Azma: a cinema of cruelty -- What can a body do?

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