"Film!"—The Arab Revolutions and the Filmmaker as Amanuensis. Issue 3 (26th May 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- "Film!"—The Arab Revolutions and the Filmmaker as Amanuensis. Issue 3 (26th May 2016)
- Main Title:
- "Film!"—The Arab Revolutions and the Filmmaker as Amanuensis
- Authors:
- Snowdon, Peter
- Abstract:
- Abstract : In her recent memoir of the Egyptian revolution Ahdaf Soueif records how one day a woman came up to her on Tahrir Square and started instructing her on how to write down the "national epic" unfolding around them. Taking Soueif's text as an allegory of the relationship between the individual and the people, I explore how an analogous process is enacted in one particular video shot in Cairo on January 25, 2011. Taken together, these two "texts" suggest the emergence of a distinctively revolutionary aesthetic, which is also a politics of obedience.
- Is Part Of:
- Visual anthropology. Volume 29:Issue 3(2016)
- Journal:
- Visual anthropology
- Issue:
- Volume 29:Issue 3(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 29, Issue 3 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 29
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0029-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 263
- Page End:
- 277
- Publication Date:
- 2016-05-26
- Subjects:
- Visual anthropology -- Periodicals
306 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gvan20/29/2 ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/08949468.2016.1154429 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0894-9468
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- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 9241.227300
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