Research Catalog

Title

Reorienting the Middle East : film and digital media where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean meet / edited by Dale Hudson and Alia Yunis.

Publication

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hudson, Dale M., 1965-
• Yunis, Alia

Description

vi, 339 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Stories of cutting-edge production facilities, generous tax incentives, and lavish film festivals often dominate perceptions of film and digital media on the Arabian Peninsula, but there is a much longer and more complicated history that connects it with the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean. In Reorienting the Middle East, contributors consider oil companies that brought film to this area in the 1930s and '40s, the first Indian film produced on the Arabian Peninsula in the late 1970s, Blackness in Iranian films, the role of Western funding in reshaping stories, Dubai's emergence in global film production, uses of online platforms for performance art, the evolution of film festivals and cinemas, and short citizen-made films that critique racism and sexism perpetrated against migrants from Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Just as the Gulf is a fluid space where film and digital media reflect long-standing connections among the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa, Reorienting the Middle East offers a way to analyze the oft-forgotten spaces between regions and disciplines and challenges the definition of film in the Middle East"--

Subject

• Motion pictures > Persian Gulf Region
• Digital media > Persian Gulf Region

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : Interconnecting Histories and Migrating Cultures / Dale Hudson and Alia Yunis -- Area Studies and Its Afterlives : Perspectives from the Gulf / Nelida Fuccaro -- Petrocolonial Genealogies of Cinema in the Gulf / Firat Oruc -- Interview with Ammar Al Attar on Cinemas in the UAE Exhibition / Ammar Al Attar and Dale Hudson -- Audible Love : Letter Songs, Vocal Letters, and the Aurality of Love across the Indian Ocean / Bindu Menon -- Ultimate Slaves in the Dead Zone : Blackness in Iranian Sacred Defense Cinema / Parisa Vaziri -- Dreams for Sale or the Challenges of Representing 1980s UAE through the Lens of Malayalam Cinema / Sebastian Thejus Cherian -- Transnational Coproductions and Questions of International Festival Films from Saudi Arabia and Oman / Karolina Ginalska -- Import-Re-Export : Reconsidering the Film Festival as a Port Economy / Kay Dickinson -- Peeking behind the Curtain : Gulf Filmmakers Imagine the Lives of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in the Arabian Peninsula / Suzi Mirgani -- Reorienting the Gaze : Emirati Women behind the Camera / Chrysavgi Papagianni -- Arabia's Ambivalent Auteur : Meshal Al-Jaser's Cinematic Vision for the New Saudi Arabia / Sean Foley -- Covering Critiques : Film and New Media Artwork in the UAE / Elizabeth Derderian -- The Gulf between Students : The First Decade of the Gulf's Longest-Running Film Festival / Alia Yunis and Sascha Ritter.

Call Number

MFL 24-254

ISBN

• 9780253067562
• 0253067561
• 9780253067579
• 025306757X

LCCN

2023021588

OCLC

1396082313

Title

Reorienting the Middle East : film and digital media where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean meet / edited by Dale Hudson and Alia Yunis.

Publisher

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hudson, Dale M., 1965- editor.

Yunis, Alia, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Reorienting the Middle East Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2023 9780253067586 (DLC) 2023021589

Research Call Number

MFL 24-254