Marks, Laura U., 1963-

Hanan al-cinema : affections for the moving image / Laura U. Marks. - Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The MIT Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xii, 400 pages) : illustrations. - Leonardo .

Includes bibliographies 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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Motion pictures--History--Arab countries--21st century.
Documentary films--History--Arab countries--21st century.
Motion picture industry--History--Arab countries--21st century.
Video art--Arab countries--21st century.


Electronic Books.

PN1993 / .H363 2015