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  4. Film Studies: National Cinemas
  5. Palestine

Film Studies: National Cinemas

This guide highlights selected resources for various national cinemas.
  • Introduction
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  • Afghanistan
  • Africa (General)
    • Africa, Northern
    • Africa, French speaking
    • Africa, Sub-Saharan
  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Benelux
  • Brazil
  • Cambodia
  • Canada
    • Quebec
  • Caribbean area
  • Chile
  • Chinese cinema
  • Colombia
  • Cuba
  • Czechia (Czech Republic)
  • France
  • Germany
  • Great Britain
    • Northern Ireland
    • Scotland
    • Wales
  • Greece
  • Hong Kong cinema
  • Hungary
  • India
  • Indigenous films
  • Irish cinema
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Latin America
  • Mexico
  • Middle East
    • Egypt
    • Iran
    • Israel
    • Turkey
  • New Zealand
  • Nigeria
  • Nordic cinema
    • Denmark
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  • Pakistan
  • Palestine
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  • Yugoslavia & Former Yugoslav Republics
  • Transnational & diasporic cinema
  • Journals & magazines about film

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Keeping up with the journal literature

Want an easy way to keep up with the journal literature for a national or regional cinema? And you use a mobile device? You can install the BrowZine app and create a custom Bookshelf of your favorite journal titles. Then you will get the Table of Contents (ToCs) of your favorite journals automatically delivered to you when they become available. Once you have the ToC's you can download and read the articles you want.

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Don't own or use a mobile device? You can still use BrowZine! It's now available in a web version. You can get to it here. The web version works the same way as the app version. Find the journals you like, create a custom Bookshelf, get ToCs and read the articles you want.

Introduction

This guide highlights library resources for Palestinian film. The guide also incorporates resources originally on William Fontaine's guide for Palestinian film. There were duplications between my guide and his. However, he did highlight film titles, directors and formats in his guide. Thanks to Bill!

The Holy Land was a popular subject for early cinema travelogues and actualities, and the consolidation of the region under British colonial control from 1922 was facilitated by British documentary filmmakers; documentary was also a preferred form for Jewish settlers (see israel, film in). Local film production can be traced back to Palestinian filmmaker Ibrahim Hassan Firhan, who filmed the 1935 visit to Jerusalem of the Prince of Saud, and the first Palestinian feature film is usually claimed to be Holiday Eve (1945), directed by Ahmed Hilmi al-Kilani. Imports from Egypt were popular in the first half of the 20th century, but cinemagoing was not as widespread as in other Arab countries. The 1948 Arab-Israeli war and the experience of Naqba (a term meaning ‘disaster’ that Palestinians use to refer to their exile from their homeland) severely retarded film production, leading to a twenty-year ‘epoch of silence’ during which time no Palestinian films were produced.

Kuhn, A., & Westwell, G. (2020). Palestine, film in. In A Dictionary of Film Studies. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 24 May. 2021


Searching the online catalog

You can use the subject heading below to find resources in the online catalog. The call number range is also included.

  • motion pictures palestine
    call number range PN 1993.5 .P35 on Baker Level 4.
    Please note: these are not the only call number ranges, but they have the majority of items.
  • palestinian arabs in motion pictures
  • arab israeli conflict motion pictures and the conflict
  • motion pictures arab countries
    Call number range PN 1993.5 .A65.
  • motion pictures middle east
    Call number range PN 1993.5 .M638 on Baker Level 4.

Introductory reading(s)

  • Cover ArtArab film and video manifestos: forty-five years of the moving imae amid revolution by Kay Dickinson
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A65 D54 2018
    ISBN: 9783319998008
    Arab Film and Video Manifestos presents, in their entirety, five key documents that have fundamentally shaken up and helped change the face of image culture in the Middle East and beyond. The book collects together, for the first time, these influential, collectively written calls and directives that span a fifty-year period and hail from a range of different countries. ...
  • Cover artThe cinema of North Africa and the Middle East by Gonul Donmez-Colin
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .A35 C523 2007
    ISBN: 9781905674114
    The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East contains twenty-four essays, each concerning an individual film from Morocco all the way to Iran. The volume explores not only the established film cultures of Turkey, Egypt, and Israel, but also the nascent cinemas of Palestine and Syria. ...
  • Cover artCompanion encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African film by Oliver Leaman, ed.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780415187039
    The Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film is a unique, one volume work which illuminates a fascinating variety of cinema which is little known outside its own area. The Encyclopedia is divided into nine chapters, each written by a leading scholar in the field. Each chapter covers the history and major issues of film within that area, as well as providing bibliographies of the leading films, directors and actors. ...
  • Cover artDreams of a nation: [on Palestinian cinema] by Hamid Dabashi, ed.
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1993.5 .P35 D74 2006
    ISBN: 9781844670888
    Over the last quarter-century, Palestinian cinema has emerged as a major artistic force on the global scene. Deeply rooted in the historic struggles for national self-determination, this cinema is the single most important artistic expression of a much-maligned people. In Dreams of a Nation, filmmakers, critics and scholars discuss the extraordinary social and artistic significance of Palestinian film. It is the only volume of its kind in any language.
  • Cover artEncyclopedia of Arab women filmmakers by Rebecca Hillauer
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry Ref. PN 1998.2 .H5513 2005
    ISBN: 9789774249433
    Arab women filmmakers: Who are they? What drives them? What are their experiences in a male-dominated profession? How do they function within the contexts--and constraints--of patriarchal societies? The answers are complex and sometimes surprising, as complex and surprising as the vastly different films these women direct. In this unprecedented book, Rebecca Hillauer assembles a comprehensive and penetrating look into the history of Arab women's filmmaking, as well as the political and social background of the countries--Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Algeria, among others--from which these artists emerged.In addition to the biographies, filmographies, and discussions of their most important works, lively, in-depth interviews allow us to hear from the filmmakers themselves. ...

Selected book title(s)

  • Cover artIsrael before Israel: silent cinema in the Holy Land by Hillel Tryster
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.75 .T79 1995
    This volume surveys the history of the silent cinema as it was developed in Ottoman and British Mandatory Palestine. It explores the political motivations and methods behind many of the productions, the main personalities involved and the many plans that were never realized.
  • Cover artPalestinian cinema: landscape, trauma and memory by Nurith Gertz; George Khleifi
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 1995.3 .P35 G47 2008
    ISBN: 9780253220073
    Although in recent years the entire world has been increasingly concerned with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there are few truly reliable sources of information about Palestinian society and culture. One of the best sources for understanding Palestinian culture is the cinema, which has strived to delineate Palestinian history and to portray the daily lives of Palestinian men, women, and children. Here, an Israeli and a Palestinian scholar, in a rare and welcome collaboration, follow the development of Palestinian cinema, commenting on its response to political and social transformations. ...
  • Cover artPalestinian literature and film in postcolonial feminist perspective by Anna Ball
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PJ 8190 .P3 B35 2012
    ISBN: 9780203098660
    Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist theory, Ball analyses a range of literary and filmic works by major creative practitioners including Michel Khleifi , Liana Badr, Annemarie Jacir, Elia Suleiman, Mona Hatoum and Suheir Hammad, and reveals a hitherto unrecognized trajectory in gender-consciousness under development in the Palestinian imagination from the start of the twentieth century. ...
  • Cover artThe rhetoric of violence: Arab-Jewish encounters in contemporary Palestinian literature and film by Kamal Abdel-Malek
    • Book
    Call Number: Baker-Berry PJ 7519 .J4 A233 2005
    ISBN: 9781403964052
    Despite the urgent need to develop understandings of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in the light of the current situation in the Middle East, the role of violence and reconciliation in Palestinian and Israeli literature and film has received only brief treatment. This book is intended to fill that void; that is to explore how Israelis and Palestinians view and depict themselves and each other in situations that lead to either violence or reconciliation, and the ways in which both parties define themselves in relation to one another. The book examines selected Palestinian and Israeli literary works and a small number of films and their tacit assumptions about Israeli Jews. ...
  • Cover artTen Arab Filmmakers: political dissent and social critique by Josef Gugler, ed.
    • On Campus or VPN
    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780253016522
    Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled here represent principal national cinemas of the Arab world--Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Syria.

Other library resource(s)

  • Resource logoIsraeli cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Raz Yosef, Boaz Hagin
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    Scholarship on Zionist and Israeli cinema is in agreement as to the major periods and movements in this corpus. During the prestate period, and especially after the 1920s, the Zionist movement used cinema to propagate Zionist ideology and to gather financial and political support. Following the 1948 independence of the State of Israel, and during the 1950s and 1960s, Israeli films continued to comply with the Zionist master-narrative.
  • Resource logoTransnational and diasporic cinema from Oxford Bibliographies Online by Ramona Curry
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199791286
    Although from the earliest years film production, marketing, and reception involved extensive national border crossing, the rubric “transnational cinema” has emerged only comparatively recently. Taken up from other disciplines such as anthropology and migration and postcolonial studies, the concept of “transnational” in this still-emerging area of cinema studies remains highly varied, pointing to sometimes contested working definitions and analytic approaches.

Finding journal articles

Our collection does not have journals that cover Palestinian cinema exclusively. You can use Film & Television Literature Index to find articles or use the search box at the top of the page.

  • Resource logoIndex Islamicus
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Use the term "cinema" to search in this database.
  • Resource logoFilm & television literature index by EBSCO Publishing
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    Use this index to find articles about this national cinema.
  • Resource logoScreen studies collection by ProQuest
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    A comprehensive survey of current publications related to film scholarship alongside detailed filmographies. This collection includes the FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database and the detailed and complementary filmographies created by the American Film Institute (AFI) and the British Film Institute.
  • Resource logoThe web of science citation databases by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.

Palestinian films in our collections

See this list of Palestinian films.

Internet resource(s)

There are Palestine Film Festivals in major cities across the country. Just do a Google search and you will find one nearest you.

  • Boston Palestine Film Festival
    • Link
  • Palestine Film Foundation
    • Link
    The Palestine Film Foundation is a nonprofit initiative which seeks to develop an audience for and to encourage the development of a Palestinian cinema and cinema related to Palestine.
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