Journal article
Cinematic Islamic feminism and the female war gaze
Abstract
One of 2019’s most acclaimed documentaries, Waad Al-Kateab’s For Sama is an extraordinary feminist representation of the Syrian civil war (2011present). Al-Kateab impressively documents five years of the most traumatic contemporary conflict in the Middle East by focusing on personal confessions to Sama, her new-born daughter. Raw, dramatic, and sometimes unbearable to watch, it is a poetic tribute to a micro-level, “singularly unmanly”, and …
Authors
Mincheva D
Journal
Alphaville Journal of Film and Screen Media, , No. 20, pp. 54–70
Publisher
University College Cork
DOI
10.33178/alpha.20.05
ISSN
2009-4078