El cine palestino entre dos intifadas
- Autores: Viola Shafik
- Localización: Archivos de la filmoteca: revista de estudios históricos sobre la imagen, ISSN 0214-6606, Nº 44, 2003, págs. 78-97
- Idioma: español
- Títulos paralelos:
- Palestinian Cinema between Two Intifadas
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Resumen
The term “Palestinian cinema” does not refer to the cinema of a Nation-State, nor to any type of national cinema in the conventional sense. Palestinian cinema has been marked by exile and conflict with the State of Israel.
The expression was first used to refer to films focused on Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation made in exile (Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) under the auspices of the Al- Fatah movement. Later, this same movement opted to promote foreign productions instead of national cinema. It was with the first Intifada of 1987 that cinema abandons the Diaspora to focus on the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Israel. It was also at this time that production began to be relegated to Western cultural institutions. This changing situation has marked Palestinian filmmaking, the scope of which includes everything from the militant model characteristic of its origins to pragmatic self- criticism and ironic deconstruction, at the same time never forsaking its original anti-colonialist position.
