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Arab Cinema

History and Cultural Identity

By: Viola Shafik

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Arab Cinema

History and Cultural Identity

By: Viola Shafik

Intended for scholars of film and the contemporary Middle East, this title provides a comprehensive overview of cinema in the Arab world, tracing the industry's development, since colonial times. It analyzes the ambiguous relationship with commercial western cinema, and the effect of Egyptian market dominance in the region.

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American Univ in Cairo Press

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9774160657

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9789774160653

Popular Egyptian Cinema

Gender, Class, and Nation

By: Viola Shafik

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Popular Egyptian Cinema

Gender, Class, and Nation

By: Viola Shafik

In this groundbreaking work, film scholar Viola Shafik examines popular and commercial movies from Egypt's film industry, including a number of the biggest box-office hits widely distributed in Egypt and the Arab world. Turning a critical eye on a major player in Egyptian cultural life, Shafik examines these films against the backdrop of the country's overall socio-political development, from the emergence of the film industry in the 1930s, through the Nasser and Sadat eras, up to the era of globalization.This is the first comprehensive book on popular Egyptian cinema in English, a milestone at a time when numerous disciplines have shown an increasing interest in popular culture. As this book ably demonstrates, popular cinema is a form of wish-fulfillment that expresses mass audiences' dreams and fears, while symbolically translating and negotiating social realities.In unearthing the largely contradictory meanings conveyed by different films, Popular Egyptian Cinema examines a broad array of themes, from gender relations to feminism, Islamism and popular ideas about sexuality and morality. Focusing on representations of religious and ethnic minorities-primarily Copts, Jews, and Nubians-Shafik draws out issues such as the formation of the Egyptian nation, cinematic stereotyping, and political and social taboos. Shafik also considers pivotal genres, such as melodrama, realism, and action film, in relation to public debates over highbrow and lowbrow culture and in light of local and international film criticism.Popular Egyptian Cinema marks an important contribution to international film studies while offering general readers an engrossing and informative look at some of the most popular films in Egyptian cinema.

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361

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Oxford University Press

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9774160533

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9789774160530

Popular Egyptian Cinema

Gender, Class, and Nation

By: Viola Shafik

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Gender, Class, and Nation

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493

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American University in Cairo Press

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1617973750

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9781617973758

Resistance, Dissidence, Revolution

Documentary Film Esthetics in the Middle East and North Africa

By: Viola Shafik

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Resistance, Dissidence, Revolution

Documentary Film Esthetics in the Middle East and North Africa

By: Viola Shafik

Situated within an emerging academic interest in documentary film in the Middle East and North Africa, this book studies the development of diverse documentary forms in relation to revolutionary and emancipatory movements that took place across the twentieth century in the so-called Arab World. Inspired by Deleuze and Guattari’s image of a “rhizome,” the author takes a de-territorialized approach to revolutionary filmmaking, embracing the diversity and fluidity of revolutionary works in the “Arab World.” As well as outlining the documentary film histories of the main film-producing nations of the region – Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco – the book analyzes the formal and esthetic features of individual works in relation to specific socio-political historical developments. Topics addressed include de-colonization, the wars of liberation, the Tricontinental movement, the Palestinian question, the Rif Uprising, the Leaden and Black Years, civil war in Lebanon, the recent Arab revolutions, state authoritarianism and totalitarianism, gender, collectivism and political subjectivity. Ultimately, the book contributes to a general theory of revolutionary documentary film forms by studying the works of consecutive periods from different ideological contexts. The book is much-needed reading for students and academics interested in film and media studies and the history, culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

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339

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Taylor & Francis

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1000824764

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9781000824766

Arab Cinema

History and Cultural Identity

By: Viola Shafik

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History and Cultural Identity

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Arab Cinema

Arab Cinema

Popular Egyptian Cinema

Popular Egyptian Cinema

Popular Egyptian Cinema

Popular Egyptian Cinema

Resistance, Dissidence, Revolution

Resistance, Dissidence, Revolution

Arab Cinema

Arab Cinema

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