Projects

We host a series of major research projects, funded by organisations including the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Leverhulme Trust, and the British Academy.

Please see below for more information on a selection of major research projects in English Literature currently taking place or recently completed.

section of visit Palestine poster — Palestine in the Popular Imagination

Investigating how Palestine has been imagined in the public sphere in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

magnified dna strand — Double Helix history

This project thinks about the popular understanding of the work of DNA and, more particularly, how we might understand, represent, and visualise it.

Communist march in Ukraine — Wars of Position

This AHRC funded project takes a new look at Communism in the West.

Modern cemetery with Irish flag — My Country, A Journey

A research based drama on the migrant experience in Britain.

Lady Emmeline Courtenay, c. 1375 — Medieval Cloth and Clothing Lexis

This project investigated the complex relationships between vocabulary, artefact and image.

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Divine Intervention (Yadon Ilaheyya)

Catalogue Code

FILM000052

Synopsis

In this darkly comic masterpiece, Palestinian director Elia Suleiman utilizes irreverence, wit, mysticism and insight to craft an intense, hallucinogenic and extremely adept exploration of the dreams and nightmares of Palestinians and Israelis living in uncertain times.

Subtitled, "A Chronicle of Love and Pain," Divine Intervention follows ES, a character played by and clearly based upon the filmmaker himself. ES is burdened with a sick father, a stalled screenplay and an unrequited love affair with a beautiful Palestinian woman (Manal Khader) living in Ramallah. An Israeli checkpoint on the Nazareth-Ramallah road forces the couple to rendezvous in an adjacent parking lot. Their relationship and the absurd situations around them serve as metaphors for the lunacy of larger cultural problems. The result is a palpable rage that is both personal and political.

Year of Release

2002

Running Time

90 mins

Distributor

Arab Film Distribution

EIDR

Genres

Drama, Dark Comedy

Languages

Arabic, English Hebrew,

Country of Origin

Palestine

Permalink

http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000052

Notes

Winner, Jury Prize and FIPRESCI Award - 2002 Cannes Film Festival

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Publications related to this film

(2003) Jason Wood (2006) Josef Gugler (2011) Laura Junko-Aikio (2013) Linda Mokdad (2012) Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi (2008) Refqa Abu-Remaileh (2008) Refqa Abu-Remaileh (2013) Tanya Shilina-Conte (2013)

Copies in the collection

DVD VAR/FIL/0023 Subtitled: English
DVD VAR/FIL/0022 Two copies

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Projects

Palestine in the Popular Imagination

Double Helix history

Wars of Position

My Country, A Journey

Medieval Cloth and Clothing Lexis