{"product_id":"an-atonal-cinema-robert-g-white-9781501384981","title":"An Atonal Cinema: Resistance, Counterpoint and Dialogue in Transnational Palestine","description":"This is a book about Palestinians \u003ci\u003eelsewhere\u003c\/i\u003e and Palestinian \u003ci\u003eelsewheres\u003c\/i\u003e. Articulating an ambiguous right to remain out-of-place as a spatialized response to the fossilized present, the films and filmmakers in this book examine Palestine, as a place and idea, from the dissonance of exile. \u003ci\u003eAn Atonal Cinema: Resistance, Counterpoint and Dialogue in Transnational Palestine\u003c\/i\u003etheorizes a transnational consciousness within contemporary Palestinian cinema as one which articulates an 'atonal' cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance with which to respond critically to the 'place-myth' of Palestine in films produced \u003ci\u003ewithin\u003c\/i\u003e Palestine but \u003ci\u003ewithout\u003c\/i\u003e Palestinians. Drawing on a genealogy of Edward Said's atonal thinking of counterpoint, I argue that the films in this book display a 'double-consciousness', through which Palestine is simultaneously elided and re-inscribed in a contrapuntal dialogue between the 'here' of its contemporary reality and the 'elsewhere' of its historical image. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Atonal Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e's radical approach includes cinematic texts from Europe, South America and Israel in its corpus, which have both triggered and been shaped by critical responses in contemporary Palestinian Cinema. Drawing on both literature and cinema, An Atonal Cinema draws on the work of Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Jean Genet and Carlo Levi. Films by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jean-Luc Godard, Menahem Golan and Miguel Littín are read contrapuntally through contemporary responses from Ayreen Anastas, Basma Alsharif, Mohanad Yaqubi, Elia Suleiman and Kamal Aljafari.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert G. White\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501384988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501384981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/23\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.59lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d","brand":"Robert G. White","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48485473976575,"sku":"9781501384981","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_de34be19-770b-4f43-8b54-3763e6d61fc2.jpg?v=1778049713","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/an-atonal-cinema-robert-g-white-9781501384981","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}