An Atonal Cinema av Robert G. White

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This is a book about Palestinians <i>elsewhere</i> and Palestinian <i>elsewheres</i>. Articulating an ambiguous right to remain out-of-place as a spatialized response to the fossilized present, the films and filmmakers in this book examine Palestine, as a place and idea, from the dissonance of exile. <i>An Atonal Cinema: Resistance, Counterpoint and Dialogue in Transnational Palestine </i>theorizes a transnational consciousness within contemporary Palestinian cinema as one which articulates an ¿atonal¿ cinema, utilizing contrapuntal dialogue as a mode of resistance with which to respond critically to the ¿place-myth¿ of Palestine in films produced <i>within</i> Palestine but <i>without</i> Palestinians. Drawing on a genealogy of Edward Said¿s atonal thinking of counterpoint, I argue that the films in this book display a ¿double-consciousness¿, through which Palestine is simultaneously elided and re-inscribed in a contrapuntal dialogue between the ¿here¿ of its contemporary reality and