Hanan Al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image

by Laura U. Marks

An examination of experimental cinema and media art from the Arabic-speaking world that explores filmmakers' creative and philosophical inventiveness in trying times.

In this book, Laura Marks examines one of the world's most impressive, and affecting, bodies of independent and experimental cinema from the last twenty-five years: film and video works from the Arabic-speaking world. Some of these works' creative strategies are shared by filmmakers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262029308
• ISBN13: 9780262029308
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher