An Atonal Cinema

Resistance, Counterpoint and Dialogue in Transnational Palestine

Robert G. White (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

196 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-8498-1 (ISBN)

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This is a book about Palestinians elsewhere and Palestinian elsewheres. Articulating an ambiguous right to remain out-of-place as a spatialized response to the fossilized present, the films and filmmakers in this book examine Palestine, as a place and idea, from the dissonance of exile. An Atonal Cinema: Resistance, Counterpoint and Dialogue in Transnational Palestine theorizes a transnational consciousness within contemporary Palestinian cinema as one which articulates an ‘atonal’ cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance with which to respond critically to the ‘place-myth’ of Palestine in films produced within Palestine but without Palestinians. Drawing on a genealogy of Edward Said’s atonal thinking of counterpoint, I argue that the films in this book display a ‘double-consciousness’, through which Palestine is simultaneously elided and re-inscribed in a contrapuntal dialogue between the ‘here’ of its contemporary reality and the ‘elsewhere’ of its historical image.

An Atonal Cinema’s radical approach includes cinematic texts from Europe, South America and Israel in its corpus, which have both triggered and been shaped by critical responses in contemporary Palestinian Cinema. Drawing on both literature and cinema, An Atonal Cinema draws on the work of Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Jean Genet and Carlo Levi. Films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Luc Godard, Menahem Golan and Miguel Littín are read contrapuntally through contemporary responses from Ayreen Anastas, Basma Alsharif, Mohanad Yaqubi, Elia Suleiman and Kamal Aljafari.

Robert G. White is a lecturer in Media and Communication at Kingston University, UK. His research explores the intersection of film, critical theory and geopolitics. He is the co-editor of Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault (Bloomsbury, 2018). His research has also been published in Film Criticism, RCL and the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies.

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Chapter 1: Between Here and Elsewhere: Godard, Genet and the resistance of image in contemporary Palestinian Cinema

Chapter 2: Between Presence and Absence: Remnants and revenants in the Cinema of the Interior

Chapter 3: Between Diaspora and Exile: Palestine, Chile and the cinema of Miguel Littín

Chapter 4: Between Basilicata and Bethlehem: Pasolini, Palestine and the non-European

Chapter 5: Towards a post-Palestinian Cinema: Imagining states of being beyond the status quo

Endnotes
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Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2023
Zusatzinfo	25 bw illus
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-8498-8 / 1501384988
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-8498-1 / 9781501384981
Zustand	Neuware