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This book investigates representations of Palestinian refugees in Gaza in colonial, humanitarian and Palestinian documentary films, spanning until the 1993 Oslo Agreement. Chapters examine various film sources throughout this period including British Pathé, newsreels, Quaker and UNRWA documentaries, and Palestinian opposition cinema.
British Pathé is considered as a window into the wider colonial depiction of indigenous Palestinians in the British Mandate period; newsreels are examined as representations of the plight of Palestinian refugees in Gaza after Israel's proclamation and Gaza-focused humanitarian documentaries shot by the Quakers and UNRWA are compared. The final chapters trace the evolution of oppositional documentary filmmaking, from the cinema of revolution (1968-1982) to the peace deal of 1993. Through a close audio-visual and textual analysis, rooted in a historical-contextual approach, Shahd Abusalama explores the techniques used to project emancipatory representations while highlighting shifts and variations in the imagery around Gaza refugees. In exploring the historical, ideologically fuelled, representations of Gaza and its refugees in colonial and humanitarian films, and the opposition to it, this book reaffirms the continuity of Palestinian resistance, refugees' call for return, and the importance of Gaza itself to the Palestinian struggle.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Figures
Chronology of key events
Introduction
The Author's Positionality: And Still They Dance (2012)
Why Gaza? Historicising the Plight of Palestinian Refugees in Gaza
Theoretical Approaches
The Representation of Palestine in Film: A Historical Review
Methods and Selection
Overall structure of the Book
1. The Presence and Absence of Palestinians in Films During the British Mandate: The Case of British Pathé
Introduction
British Pathé and the British Empire
British Pathé's First Documentaries on Palestine
The Palestinian Great Revolt (1936-1939)
The End of the Mandate, 1946-1948: A Change or More of the Same?
Conclusion
2. Gaza's Palestinian Refugees Through the Pathé Lens
Introduction
Pathé and the Nakba
The Absent Presence of Gaza in 1940s Newsreels
1955-1957: Gaza and the Suez Crisis
The First Occupation of Gaza, 1956-1957
The Israeli Military Occupation of 1967
Conclusion
3. Humanitarian Representations of Gaza refugees: The Quakers' Case
Introduction
Historicising The Early Plight of Palestinian Refugees in Gaza (1948-1950)
The Quakers in Gaza: Western Humanitarianism Versus the Desire for Return
The AFSC Documentary Film Palestine (1949)
Conclusion
4. Western Humanitarianism and the UNRWA Visual Image
Introduction
Western Humanitarianism and Images of Suffering
UNRWA in Gaza and the Politics of the Archive
Inviting Sympathy in Sands of Sorrow (1950)
Conclusion
5. Gaza Refugees in the Cinema of Revolution (1968-1982)
Introduction
The Palestinian Cinema of Revolution
Scenes from the Occupation in Gaza (1973)
Conclusion
6. Gaza Refugees in Palestinian Filmmaking, 1982-1993
Introduction
Fourth Period Cinema: Post-Revolution Cinema?
Gaza from the 1980s to 1993
Gaza Ghetto (1985)
Filmmakers of the First Intifada in Gaza 225
Palestinian Diaries (1991) 227
Conclusion 236
Conclusion 238
Bibliography
Cited Filmography
