Josepha Ivanka (Joshka) Wessels is Senior Lecturer in Communication for Development with the School of Arts and Communication (K3) at Malmö University in Sweden and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St Andrews. She has a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Amsterdam and has carried out postdoctoral research at the University of Copenhagen and Lund University. Until 2012 she was a documentary filmmaker and consultant on the MENA region, with her work being broadcast on the BBC and Al Jazeera English.
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Preface
Introduction
Dissident Art and Arab Cinema
PART I: Documentary Filmmaking in Syria
1. Masters of Syrian Documentary
2. Inspired by the masters, a new generation.
3. Documentaries for social change, the case of Bassel Shehadeh
PART II: Eyewitnesses of a Revolution
4. Syrian Emergency Cinema and YouTube
5. The view from below, video activism from the North
6. Politics of the image; relations with international media.
7. To tell the world! Evidencing warcrimes and VR.
Epilogue
Filmographies
A Call from Syrian Filmmakers
Notes and References
Bibliography
