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Zusatztext Sharp, to the point and highly enjoyable. Informationen zum Autor Kay Dickinson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Creative Arts at University of Glasgow, UK. She is the author of Off Key: When Film and Music Won't Work Together ( 2008), Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond (British Film Institute, 2016) and Arab Film and Video Manifestos: Forty-Five Years of the Moving Image Amid Revolution (2018). Klappentext Exploring the impact of travel on Arab cinema, Kay Dickinson reveals how the cinemas of Syria, Palestine and Dubai have been shaped by the history and politics of international circulation. This compelling book offers fresh insights into film, mobility and the Middle East. Zusammenfassung Exploring the impact of travel on Arab cinema, Kay Dickinson reveals how the cinemas of Syria, Palestine and Dubai have been shaped by the history and politics of international circulation. This compelling book offers fresh insights into film, mobility and the Middle East. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments.- Setting Off.- 1. Fellow Travellers: Approaches To and Through the Journey.- 2. Red and Green Stars in Broad Daylight: A Socialist Talab al-'Ilm for Syrian State Cinema.- 3. The Road of Most Resistance: Film-making of the Second Palestinian Intifada.- 4. 'Travel and Profit from It': Dubai's Forays into Film.- Outgoing Cargo.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.
