Arab Film and Video Manifestos

Kay Dickinson is Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University, Canada. She is author of Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond (2016), as well as numerous articles on Arab film culture within such journals as Camera Obscura, Screen, Cinema Journal, and Framework. She co-edited The Arab Avant-Garde: Music, Politics, Modernity (2013), and co-wrote Film Studies: A Global Introduction (2016).

• 1. Why the Manifesto?.- 2. The Naksa’s New Cinema: New Cinema Group, “Manifesto of New Cinema in Egypt” (1968).- 3. Cinematic Third Worldism: “Resolutions of the Third World Filmmakers Meeting” (Algeria, 1973).- 4. Cinema within Armed Struggle: “Manifesto of the Palestinian Cinema Group” (1972) and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, “The Cinema and the Revolution”.- 5. The Images Are the Revolution’s”: Mosireen, “Revolution Triptych” (2013).