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Description of  Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit (Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema)

This book consists of an account of the creation of the Palestine Film Unit (PFU) and its founding members, from the photography department in the early years of the Palestinian revolution (1967-1968), to its evolution in the mid-1970s into the Palestinian Cinema Institution. Khadijeh Habashneh weaves her own memories into excerpts from letters and other communications of survivors, friends and PFU family members, with writings by scholars who analyzed the work and the contributions of this remarkable film movement (from the late 1960s to early 1980s). As such it offers a unique perspective on this aspect of Palestine film history that ended in the loss of its archive in the mid 1980s, providing details that have not been previously published in English. Read more