Gaza’s long association with resistance and humanitarian need has generated a complex and ever shifting range of visual material, comprising not just news reports and documentaries, but also essay, experimental, and fiction films, militant videos, and solidarity images. Contributors to Gaza on Screen, who include scholars and Gazan filmmakers, explore the practice, production, and impact of film and videos from and about the Gaza Strip. Conceptualizing screens—both large and small—as tools for mediation that are laden with power, the volume explores Gazan film and video in relation to humanitarianism and human rights, care, community, environment, mobility and confinement, and decolonization. The volume includes visual material ranging from solidarity broadcasts on Lebanese television, mid-twentieth-century British Pathé newsreels, and fiction films to breaking news, visuals of contemporary militant resistance, documentaries, and found footage films, arguing for a visual ecosystem in which differing types of film and video affect and inform each other. Throughout, Gaza on Screen demonstrates that screens shape and sustain relationships between Gaza and the world, and help to sustain the possibility of a different future.

Contributors. Nayrouz Abu Hatoum, Shahd Abusalama, Samirah Alkassim, Basma Alsharif, Hadeel Assali, Azza El-Hassan, Hatim El-Hibri, Mohamed Jabaly, Ahmed Mansour, Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser, Kamran Rastegar, Viviane Saglier, Abdelsalam Shehada, Yaron Shemer, Rebecca L. Stein, Helga Tawil-Souri, Shaira Vadasaria, Nadia Yaqub

Nadia Yaqub is Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; author of Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art: The Oral Poetry Dueling of Palestinian Weddings in the Galilee and Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution; and coeditor of Bad Girls of the Arab World.

-- Frances S. Hasso, author of Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine

Note on Transliteration  xi
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction / Nadia Yaqub  1
1. Gaza Filmmaking in a Palestinian Context: A Gazan Filmmakers’ Roundtable / Basma Alsharif, Azza El-Hassan, Mohamed Jabaly, Ahmed Mansour, Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser, and Abdelsalam Shehada (Editing and commentary by Nadia Yaqub with an introduction by Azza El-Hassan)  29
2. Gazan Cinema as an Infrastructure of Care / Viviane Saglier  50
3. Found Footage as Counter-ethnography: Scenes from the Occupation of Gaza and the Films of Basma Alsharif / Samirah Alkassim  71
4. Rendering Gaza Visible: The Visual Economy of the Nakba in Palestinian Films of the Oslo Period / Kamran Rastegar  92
5. So Close, So Far: Gaza in Israeli Cinema / Yaron Shemer  114
6. Attending to the Fugitive: Resistance Videos from Gaza / Nayrouz Abu Hatoum and Hadeel Assali  136
7. Sensory Politics of Return: Hearing Gaza under Siege / Shaira Vadasaria  157
8. How to Unsee Gaza: Israeli Media, State Violence, Palestinian Testimony / Rebecca L. Stein  172
9. The Elisions of Televised Solidarity in the 2024 Lebanese Broadcast for Gaza / Hatim El-Hibri  187
10. Seeing Palestine, Not Seeing Palestinians/ Gaza in the British Pathé Lens / Shahd Abusalama  207
Afterword. Gaza Screened / Helga Tawil-Souri  231
Filmography  239
References  243
Contributors  265
Index  269