This photo essay is an attempt to register the complex political valences of certain shared formal preoccupations in the cinematic, photographic, videographic, and new media works/interventions of Shirin Neshat, Lalla Essaydi, Mona Hatoum, Ana Lily Amirpour, Amina Sboui, and Nadia El Fani. What is contested here is the so-called readability of images, especially those by Middle Eastern women, as these coalesced during the late colonial and postcolonial periods and as they continue today. The “photo-grams” that constitute the essay function neither as illustrations nor as counter-readings, but as frames of a lost or imagined film these filmmaker-photographer-new media activists might have made—despite or perhaps because of their political-geographical-temporal dispersion—as a kind of collective.
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January 01 2017
Fabrics of Dislocation: A Biography of Appearance Available to Purchase
Bennet Schaber
Bennet Schaber
Bennet Schaber is the director of the Cinema and Screen Studies program at the State University of New York, Oswego, and a visiting professor of film and English in the Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines at the University of Kairouan, Tunisia.
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Feminist Media Histories (2017) 3 (1): 103–139.
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Bennet Schaber; Fabrics of Dislocation: A Biography of Appearance. Feminist Media Histories 1 January 2017; 3 (1): 103–139. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2017.3.1.103
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