Between Reality and Documentary
A Historical Representation of Gaza Refugees in Colonial, Humanitarian and Palestinian Documentary Film
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Between Reality and Documentary
A Historical Representation of Gaza Refugees in Colonial, Humanitarian and Palestinian Documentary Film
About this book
This book investigates representations of Palestinian refugees in Gaza in colonial, humanitarian and Palestinian documentary films, spanning until the 1993 Oslo Agreement. Chapters examine various film sources throughout this period including British Pathé, newsreels, Quaker and UNRWA documentaries, and Palestinian opposition cinema. British Pathé is considered as a window into the wider colonial depiction of indigenous Palestinians in the British Mandate period; newsreels are examined as representations of the plight of Palestinian refugees in Gaza after Israel's proclamation and Gaza-focused humanitarian documentaries shot by the Quakers and UNRWA are compared. The final chapters trace the evolution of oppositional documentary filmmaking, from the cinema of revolution (1968-1982) to the peace deal of 1993. Through a close audio-visual and textual analysis, rooted in a historical-contextual approach, Shahd Abusalama explores the techniques used to project emancipatory representations while highlighting shifts and variations in the imagery around Gaza refugees. In exploring the historical, ideologically fuelled, representations of Gaza and its refugees in colonial and humanitarian films, and the opposition to it, this book reaffirms the continuity of Palestinian resistance, refugees' call for return, and the importance of Gaza itself to the Palestinian struggle.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology of key events
- Introduction
- 1 The presence and absence of Palestinians in films during the British Mandate: The case of British Pathé
- 2 Gaza’s Palestinian refugees through the Pathé lens
- 3 Humanitarian representations of Gaza refugees: The Quakers’ case
- 4 Western humanitarianism and the UNRWA visual image
- 5 Gaza refugees in the cinema of revolution (1968–82)
- 6 Gaza refugees in Palestinian filmmaking, 1982–93
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Cited filmography
- Index
- Imprint