Reorienting the Middle East : film and digital media where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean meet /
Reorienting the Middle East : film and digital media where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean meet /
edited by Dale Hudson and Alia Yunis.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2023.
- pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Stories of cutting-edge production facilities, generous tax incentives, and lavish film festivals often dominate perceptions of film and digital media on the Arabian Peninsula, but there is a much longer and more complicated history that connects it with the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean. In Reorienting the Middle East, contributors consider oil companies that brought film to this area in the 1930s and '40s, 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 evolution of film festivals and cinemas, and short citizen-made films that critique racism and sexism perpetrated against migrants from Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Just as the Gulf is a fluid space where film and digital media reflect long-standing connections among the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa, Reorienting the Middle East offers a way to analyze the oft-forgotten spaces between regions and disciplines and challenges the definition of film in the Middle East"--
9780253067579
2023021588
Motion pictures--Persian Gulf Region.
Digital media--Persian Gulf Region.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula
PN1993.5.P39 / R46 2023
791.430953
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Stories of cutting-edge production facilities, generous tax incentives, and lavish film festivals often dominate perceptions of film and digital media on the Arabian Peninsula, but there is a much longer and more complicated history that connects it with the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean. In Reorienting the Middle East, contributors consider oil companies that brought film to this area in the 1930s and '40s, 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 evolution of film festivals and cinemas, and short citizen-made films that critique racism and sexism perpetrated against migrants from Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Just as the Gulf is a fluid space where film and digital media reflect long-standing connections among the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa, Reorienting the Middle East offers a way to analyze the oft-forgotten spaces between regions and disciplines and challenges the definition of film in the Middle East"--
9780253067579
2023021588
Motion pictures--Persian Gulf Region.
Digital media--Persian Gulf Region.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
HISTORY / Middle East / Arabian Peninsula
PN1993.5.P39 / R46 2023
791.430953