Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour

Terri Ginsberg is assistant professor of film and media at Concordia University in Montréal. She is the author of Visualizing the Palestinian Struggle and Holocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology; co-author of Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema; and co-editor of Cinema of the Arab World and A Companion to German Cinema. She is a founding member of the Middle East Moving Image Collective (MEMIC). Her forthcoming edited collection looks at the governmentalization of international film education.

“This reinsertion of the timelessness of the Palestinian struggle could not arrive at a more perilous but also potentially progressive moment. … This monograph in its recalling of a revolutionary past that is still present, is an extraordinary intervention in and furthering of that moment.” (Dennis Broe, Journal of Contemporary Iraq & the Arab World, Vol. 18 (2-3), 2024)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Feminist Auratics and the Radical (Re)Envisioning of Revolutionary Militancy.- 3. Trauma Critiques the Cinematic Confessional.- 4. Conclusion.