ReFocus: The Films of Jocelyne Saab

Dr Mathilde Rouxel is a researcher at the New Sorbonne University, and an independent curator, specialising in Arab cinema Stefanie Van de Peer is Reader in Film & Media at Queen Margaret University. She has published Negotiating Dissidence (EUP 2017), Women in African Cinema (Routledge 2020) and ReFocus: The Films of Annemarie Jacir (EUP 2023). She has also edited several edited collections on diverse topics including Jocelyne Saab’s work, Arab Stardom and Global Feminist Film Archives. She sits on the Executive Committee of the British Association of Film, TV and Screen Studies, is series editor for EUP’s ReFocus: The International Directors series, and is associate editor for the journal Studies in World Cinema.

• AcknowledgementsList of ContributorsList of ImagesIntroduction: A Synthesis and Testimony of Jocelyne Saab’s Life and Work - Mathilde Rouxel and Stefanie Van de PeerPART 1 - JOCELYNE SAAB: 50 YEARS OF CREATION IN THE TURMOIL OF ARAB HISTORY1. Telling the Tale of a World in Turmoil: Conversations with Jocelyne Saab - Olivier Hadouchi2. On Representing the War as Rupture: Jocelyne Saab and New Lebanese Cinema (1975-1990) - Ghada Sayegh3. Jocelyne Saab's Hanging Gardens: A Multimedia Architecture through Stories and Time - Joan Grandjean4. A Filmmaker’s Words: A Journey Through the Archive of Jocelyne Saab’s Unfinished Work - Mathilde RouxelPART 2 - FILM AS A WEAPON AGAINST WAR AND OBLIVION5. From Class Struggle to Sectarian Warfare: Jocelyne Saab’s Beirut Trilogy - Giovanni Vimercati6. Beirut, There Was and There Was Not - Mark Westmoreland7. A Mother and Daughter Reunion: How Jocelyne Saab shot her last documentary My Name is Mei Shigenobu - Yomota Inuhiko8. Jocelyne Saab and CRIFFL: Dismantling Boundaries and Making New Routes for Asian Cinema in Lebanon - Nemesis SrourPART 3 - LIBERATING THE PEOPLE, FREEING THE BODY9. Guerrillas, Border Crossings and Internationalism: The Liberation of Non-Arabs in Jocelyne Saab’s Early Documentaries - Stefanie Van de Peer10. "Talking about Something much Larger": Script Development and Creating Metaphor and Meaning in Jocelyne Saab’s Dunia (2005) - Margaret McVeigh11. The Feminist Cinema of Jocelyne Saab: Women’s Relationships and the Philosophy of Dance in Four Feature Fiction Films - Maram Soboh12. Exile, Gender and Empowerment in Jocelyne Saab’s Films: Le Café du Genre and One Dollar a Day - Corinne Fortier13. Twilight Reflections in Single Frames and Short Sequences - Samirah AlkassimPART 4 - ADVOCATING POETRY14. A Suspended Life: A Cinematic Fall - Marie Chebli15. The City of Disasters and Dreams: Experiencing Beirut and its Urban Geography in light of Jocelyne Saab’s Beyrouth ma ville and Ghazl el Banat - Gregory Buchakjian16. Fiction and Voyeurisms: For a Fantasmatic History - Léa Polverini17. Catalogue of Jocelyne Saab’s Artistic Output - Mathilde Rouxel

This impressive collection is of interest beyond film studies, it engages with poetry, photography, urban studies, Asian Studies and is itself a beautiful tribute to Saab’s life and work.