Gaza on Screen

Gaza's long association with resistance and humanitarian need has generated a complex and ever shifting range of visual material comprising not just news reports and documentaries but also essay experimental and fiction films militant videos and solidarity images. Contributors to <i>Gaza on Screen</i> who include scholars and Gazan filmmakers explore the practice production and impact of film and videos from and about the Gaza Strip. Conceptualizing screens-both large and small-as tools for mediation that are laden with power the volume explores Gazan film and video in relation to humanitarianism and human rights care community environment mobility and confinement and decolonization. The volume includes visual material ranging from solidarity broadcasts on Lebanese television mid-twentieth-century British Pathé newsreels and fiction films to breaking news visuals of contemporary militant resistance documentaries and found footage films arguing for a visual ecosystem in which differing types of film and video affect and inform each other. Throughout <i>Gaza on Screen </i>demonstrates that screens shape and sustain relationships between Gaza and the world and help to sustain the possibility of a different future.<br><br>Contributors. Nayrouz Abu Hatoum Shahd Abusalama Samirah Alkassim Basma Alsharif Hadeel Assali Azza El-Hassan Hatim El-Hibri Mohamed Jabaly Ahmed Mansour Arab Nasser Tarzan Nasser Kamran Rastegar Viviane Saglier Abdelsalam Shehada Yaron Shemer Rebecca L. Stein Helga Tawil-Souri Shaira Vadasaria Nadia Yaqub