Documenting Syria

Film-making, Video Activism and Revolution

Josepha Ivanka Wessels (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2019
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-83860-434-9 (ISBN)

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Syria is now one of the most important countries in the world for the documentary film industry. Since the 1970s, Syrian cinema masters played a defining role in avant-garde filmmaking and political dissent against authoritarianism. After the outbreak of violence in 2011, an estimated 500,000 video clips were uploaded making it one of the first YouTubed revolutions in history.

This book is the first history of documentary filmmaking in Syria. Based on extensive media ethnography and in-depth interviews with Syrian filmmakers in exile, the book offers an archival analysis of the documentary work by masters of Syrian cinema, such as Nabil Maleh, Ossama Mohammed, Mohammed Malas, Hala Al Abdallah, Hanna Ward, Ali Atassi and Omar Amiralay. Joshka Wessels traces how the works of these filmmakers became iconic for a new generation of filmmakers at the beginning of the 21st century and maps the radical change in the documentary landscape after the revolution of 2011.

Special attention is paid to the late Syrian filmmaker and pro-democracy activist, Bassel Shehadeh, and the video-resistance from Aleppo and Raqqa against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and the Islamic State. An essential resource for scholars of Syrian Studies, this book will also be highly relevant to the fields of media & conflict research, anthropology and political science.

Josepha Ivanka (Joshka) Wessels is Senior Lecturer in Communication for Development with the School of Arts and Communication (K3) at Malmö University in Sweden and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St Andrews. She has a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Amsterdam and has carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Copenhagen and Lund University. Until 2012 she was a documentary filmmaker and consultant on the MENA region, with her work being broadcast on the BBC and Al Jazeera English.

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Dissident Art and Arab Cinema

PART I: Documentary Filmmaking in Syria
1. Masters of Syrian Documentary
2. Inspired by the masters, a new generation.
3. Documentaries for social change, the case of Bassel Shehadeh

PART II: Eyewitnesses of a Revolution
4. Syrian Emergency Cinema and YouTube
5. The view from below, video activism from the North
6. Politics of the image; relations with international media.
7. To tell the world! Evidencing warcrimes and VR.

Epilogue
Filmographies
A Call from Syrian Filmmakers
Notes and References
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	20.07.2019
Zusatzinfo	13 bw illus.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-83860-434-0 / 1838604340
ISBN-13	978-1-83860-434-9 / 9781838604349
Zustand	Neuware