Hanan Al-Cinema Affections for the Moving Image

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

About the author

Laura U. Marks is Dena Wosk University Professor in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Enfoldment and Infinity: An Islamic Genealogy of New Media Art (MIT Press).

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Laura U. Marks, Laura U. (Simon Fraser University) Marks, Laura U Marks, Marks Laura U.
• Assisted by: Roger F. (Leonardo Executive Editor Malina (Editor), Roger F. Malina (Editor), Sean Cubitt (Editor), Sean (Professor of Film and Television Studies Cubitt (Editor)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 30.09.2015
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history
• EAN: 9780262029308
• ISBN: 978-0-262-02930-8
• Pages: 416
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Series: Leonardo, Leonardo Book, Leonardo Book Series, Hanan al-Cinema, Leonardo, Leonardo Book Series, Leonardo Book, Hanan al-Cinema
• Subjects: Films, cinema; Arabian Peninsula; PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General