Contested Spaces

Kamal Aljafari's Transnational Palestinian Films

Ginsberg, Terri (editor) / Mensch, Andrea (editor) / Limbrick, Peter (author)

A Companion to German Cinema ; 218-248

2012-01-13

31 pages

9781405194365 , 9781444345605

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444345605.ch9

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

Aljafari's films, politics, aesthetics, in a transnational frame , Visit Iraq, a film about an empty space , establishing a Palestinian presence, contingencies of colonial space , German cinema, transnational in production, film narratives , the advent of a “cinema of border crossings” , The Roof, everyday realities of Palestinian life in Israel , Aljafari's transnational Palestinian films, and contested spaces , spatial politics of Jaffa, in Port of Memory , reinscription of space and elision, of Palestinian spaces of home , Arab‐identified space, perspective of city's European inhabitants