Description
Based on extensive media ethnography and in-depth interviews, this book is the first history of documentary filmmaking in Syria
About the Author
Josepha Ivanka (Joshka) Wessels is Senior Lecturer in Communication for Development with the School of Arts and Communication (K3) at Malmoe University in Sweden and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St Andrews. She has a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Amsterdam and has carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Copenhagen and Lund University. Until 2012 she was a documentary filmmaker and consultant on the MENA region, with her work being broadcast on the BBC and Al Jazeera English.
Reviews
Wessels brings a filmmaker's eye and an anthropologist's sensibility to this landmark examination of Syrian documentaries and their creators ... Writing from decades of deep engagement, Wessels shatters the myth that the Syrian uprising's explosion of dissident culture emerged from a creative void. -- Christa Salamandra, Professor of Anthropology, Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA
This extraordinary and deeply researched study connects the documentary video productions of the Syrian revolution with antecedents produced under the punishing eye of two Assad regimes ... Documenting Syria makes an essential contribution to the cultural history of the Syrian revolution and demands international attention to the regime's crimes against humanity and the people's courage, resilience and creativity. -- miriam cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures, Duke University, USA
An excellent exploration of a neglected form of filmmaking from a country whose amazing cultural production has historically been repressed and is currently neglected ... Wessels' book offers a sensitive and knowledgeable insight into contemporary developments in Syria's transnational and networked cultural production. -- Stefanie van de Peer, University of Glasgow, UK
Book Information
ISBN 9781838604349
Author Josepha Ivanka Wessels
Format Paperback
Page Count 336
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 520g