The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media and the Radical Imagination

Author: Greg A. Burris

Book review by: Malek Rasamny

Published by: Philadelphia: Temple University Press

Year of publication: 2019

Number of pages: 251

I still have not made my mind up yet about whether Greg Burris’s The Palestinian Idea is a set of incredibly ambitious provocations and ideas delivered with modesty and circumspection or a series of modest reflections and observations delivered with a good deal of force and conviction. This, bear in mind, is by no means a critique. Like those glass prisms with the image that changes in accordance with the angle with which you hold it, the argument laid out in the book shifts drastically with a slight adjustment in the way one regards it. Looked at from one perspective one sees an arrangement of careful and incisive readings of the Palestinian film and media landscape, but with a mere three degree change in adjustment one beholds a series of bold, controversial, and perhaps quite necessary interventions into such questions as the nature of power, the future of solidarity, and…

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