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Reorienting the Middle East – Film and Digital Media Where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean Meet
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Reorienting the Middle East – Film and Digital Media Where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean Meet
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Stories of exotic desert landscapes, cutting-edge production
facilities, and lavish festivals often dominate narratives about
film and digital media on the Arabian Peninsula. However, there is
a much longer and more complicated history that reflects
long-standing interconnections between the Persian Gulf, Arabian
Sea, and Indian Ocean. Just as these waters are fluid spaces, so
too is film and digital media between cultures in East Africa,
Europe, North Africa, South Asia, Southwest Asia, and Southeast
Asia. Reorienting the Middle East examines past and contemporary
aspects of film and deigital media in the Gulf that might not
otherwise be legible in dominant frameworks. Contributors consider
oil companies that brought film exhibition to this area in the
1930s, the first Indian film produced on the Arabian Peninsula in
the late 1970s, blackness in Iranian films, the role of Western
funding in reshaping stories, Dubai's emergence in global film
production, uses of online platforms for performance art, the
development of film festivals and cinemas, and short films made by
citizens and migrants that turn a lens on racism, sexism, national
identity, and other social issues rarely discussed publicly.
Reorienting the Middle East offers new methods to analyze the
oft-neglected littoral spaces between nation-states and regions and
to understand the role of film and digital media in shaping
questions between area studies and film/media studies. Readers will
find new pathways to rethink the limitations of dominant categories
and frameworks in both fields.
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