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Arab cinema : history and cultural identity / Viola Shafik.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Cairo ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2016Edition: Revised and updated editionDescription: vi, 423 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789774166907 (pbk.)
  • 9774166906 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Arabische Film. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4309174927
LOC classification:
  • PN 1993.5 S525a 2016
Contents:
IntroductionTheoretical basisCulture and identity1. The History of Arab CinemaEncounter with a new mediumProduction during the colonial periodCinema and resistanceNational film making and the stateEducation and know-howHollywood or socialismThe crisis of the public sectorCensorshipCinema artisanal and coproductionDiversification in the satellite era2. Artistic Roots of Arab CinemaImage and symbolic arrangementThe theaterLanguage and the art of narrationMusic3. Cultural Identity and GenreThe literary adaptationRealismHistory in cinemaCinema d'auteur4. Conclusion5. Arab Cinema Today: A PostscriptThis postscriptArab filmmaking: old and newCinema in the Maghreb restructuredNew media and 'independent' cinemaLebanese film: war and antiheroismPalestine: the cost of resistanceIraq: deconstructing the nation?Syrian film: art or paralysis?Tunisia: the dogma of female liberationReconnecting to the popularNotesBibliographyIndex of TitlesIndex of Names
Summary: A perennially popular text, now revised and updated.
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Previous edition: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

IntroductionTheoretical basisCulture and identity1. The History of Arab CinemaEncounter with a new mediumProduction during the colonial periodCinema and resistanceNational film making and the stateEducation and know-howHollywood or socialismThe crisis of the public sectorCensorshipCinema artisanal and coproductionDiversification in the satellite era2. Artistic Roots of Arab CinemaImage and symbolic arrangementThe theaterLanguage and the art of narrationMusic3. Cultural Identity and GenreThe literary adaptationRealismHistory in cinemaCinema d'auteur4. Conclusion5. Arab Cinema Today: A PostscriptThis postscriptArab filmmaking: old and newCinema in the Maghreb restructuredNew media and 'independent' cinemaLebanese film: war and antiheroismPalestine: the cost of resistanceIraq: deconstructing the nation?Syrian film: art or paralysis?Tunisia: the dogma of female liberationReconnecting to the popularNotesBibliographyIndex of TitlesIndex of Names

A perennially popular text, now revised and updated.

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