Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video - Postnational and Feminist Aesthetics

This book focuses on an underexamined group of female Palestinian filmmakers, highlighting their relevance for thinking through a diverse set of issues relating to decolonial aesthetics; post-nationalism and gender; non-Western ecologies; trauma and memory; diasporic experiences of space; biopolitics; and decolonial temporalities.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction- Decolonial Imaginaries in Palestinian Experimental Film and Video: Postnational and Feminist Aesthetics
Chapter 2 Ghosts and Echoes: Decolonial Historiography in the Films of Jumana Manna
Chapter 3 Decolonial Ecologies in Jumana Manna's Wild Relatives (2018) and Foragers (2022)
Chapter 4 In the Future Palestine Was...: Larissa Sansour's Dystopian Futurisms
Chapter 5 Decolonizing, Deterritorializing: Gaza and Beyond in the films of Basma Alsharif

About the author

Kristin Lené Hole is Associate Professor of Film Studies in the School of Film at Portland State University, USA. She is the author of Towards a Feminist Cinematic Ethics: Claire Denis, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jean-Luc Nancy.

Product details

• Authors: Kristin Lené Hole, Kristin Lene (Portland State University Hole
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032755403
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3275540-3
• No. of pages: 118
• Series: Routledge Focus on Film Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; History, Media Studies, Popular Culture, Eastern Europe, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Middle East, Documentary films, Humanities, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Reference