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Review: Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image, by Laura U. Marks

Review: Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image, by Laura U. Marks Downloaded from http://afterimage.ucpress.edu/ on December 5 2019 BOOK REVIEW Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving pages. What Marks has provided is not an inventory or survey— Image in fact she has written about other works and other artists with- By Laura U. Marks in these regions, so it is not a momentary compendium of her own MIT Press, 2015 work either. Rather, the extreme convulsions that have wracked 400 pp./$32.00 (hb) much of the Middle East and North Africa have contributed to its advent as an artistic laboratory, in which notions of the archive, In his book Being Arab the mutations and torsions of the body, explorations of the re- (2006), Samir Kassir argues trievability of radical or revolutionary politics (as in the chapter that the Arab world enjoyed a “Communism, Dream Deferred”), or the exploitation of the resis- twentieth-century cultural re- tance to representation residing within digital processes and tech- naissance that surpassed the nologies themselves, have an immediacy and urgency that they accomplishments of the nine- often don’t yet have in other parts of the globe. teenth, especially in the cin- Marks weaves contemporary Arab commentators like Khemais ema. That this claim is not Khayati and Jalal http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism University of California Press

Review: Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image, by Laura U. Marks

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University of California Press
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© 2017 Afterimage/Visual Studies Workshop, unless otherwise noted. Reprints require written permission and acknowledgement of previous publication in Afterimage.
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2578-8531
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10.1525/aft.2017.44.6.28
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Downloaded from http://afterimage.ucpress.edu/ on December 5 2019 BOOK REVIEW Hanan al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving pages. What Marks has provided is not an inventory or survey— Image in fact she has written about other works and other artists with- By Laura U. Marks in these regions, so it is not a momentary compendium of her own MIT Press, 2015 work either. Rather, the extreme convulsions that have wracked 400 pp./$32.00 (hb) much of the Middle East and North Africa have contributed to its advent as an artistic laboratory, in which notions of the archive, In his book Being Arab the mutations and torsions of the body, explorations of the re- (2006), Samir Kassir argues trievability of radical or revolutionary politics (as in the chapter that the Arab world enjoyed a “Communism, Dream Deferred”), or the exploitation of the resis- twentieth-century cultural re- tance to representation residing within digital processes and tech- naissance that surpassed the nologies themselves, have an immediacy and urgency that they accomplishments of the nine- often don’t yet have in other parts of the globe. teenth, especially in the cin- Marks weaves contemporary Arab commentators like Khemais ema. That this claim is not Khayati and Jalal

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Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural CriticismUniversity of California Press

Published: May 1, 2017

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