Modern Palestinian Women under the British Mandate: Interpreting History Through Film

This proposed practice-led PhD project will create and analyse visual representations of Palestinian women's history during British Mandate Palestine (1920-1948) through film. My project has three main onceptual dimensions. The first is concerned with locating women's agency against dominant structures, exploring how Palestinian women during this period negotiated the politics of colonisation, nationalism and feminism. The second is an investigation into the process of constructing historical narrative and representation through film in a relation of continuity to the present. The third is concerned with film aesthetics, spectatorship and the production of meaning and knowledge.