Dreams of a Nation - On Palestinian Cinema

Informationen zum Autor Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the founder of Dreams of a Nation: A Palestinian Film Project, committed to the preservation and dissemination of Palestinian cinema. His Close Up: Iranian Cinema: Past, Present and Future is also published by Verso. Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Society of Literature and of Kings College Cambridge, his celebrated works include Orientalism , The End of the Peace Process , Power, Politics and Culture , and the memoir Out of Place . He is also the editor, with Christopher Hitchens, of Blaming the Victims , published by Verso. New Left Review published an obituary in Nov-Dec 2003: http://www.newleftreview.org/?view=2481 Klappentext A lively celebration of the genius and power of Palestinian cinema. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays and interviews in which filmmakers! critics and scholars reflect on Palestinian cinema.

Product details

• Authors: Hamid Dabashi
• Assisted by: Hamid Dabashi (Editor), Edward W Said (Foreword)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.09.2006
• EAN: 9781844670888
• ISBN: 978-1-84467-088-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Films, cinema, Palestine, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General