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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 ... Read more

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  • Documentary Filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa

    Edited by Viola Shafik ...
    A comprehensive, in-depth study of Arab documentary filmmaking by leading experts in the fieldWhile many of the Arab documentary films that emerged after the digital turn in the 1990s have been the subject of close scholarly and media attention, far less well studied is the immense wealth of Arab documentaries produced during the celluloid era. These ranged from newsreels to information, ... Read more

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  • Resistance, Dissidence, Revolution

    Documentary Film Esthetics in the Middle East and North Africa

    by Viola Shafik ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle East Film and Media
    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 ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Ten Arab Filmmakers

    Political Dissent and Social Critique

    by Christa Salamandra, Jonathan Smolin, Dalia Said Mostafa, Tim Kennedy, Refqa Abu-Remaileh, Viola Shafik, Benjamin Geer, Guy Austin, Will Higbee ...
    Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled here represent principal national cinemas of the Arab world—Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Syria. Although they have produced many of the region's most-renowned films and gained ... Read more

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    The End of Postcolonialism

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
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  • Andrei Tarkovsky

    Elements of Cinema

    by Robert Bird ...
    The films of Andrei Tarkovsky have been revered as ranking on a par with the masterpieces of Russia's novelists and composers. His work, from films such as Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, Nostalgia and Sacrifice, has had an enormous influence on the style of contemporary European film, with its open narrative structures and slow, pensive mood; yet Tarkovsky has remained an ... Read more

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  • Syria from Reform to Revolt

    Volume 2: Culture, Society, and Religion

    by Max Weiss, Donatella Della Ratta, Shayna Silverstein, Laura Ruiz de Elvira, Andreas Bandak, Thomas Pierret ...
    Series series Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
    As Syria’s anti-authoritarian uprising and subsequent civil war have left the country in ruins, the need for understanding the nation’s complex political and cultural realities remains urgent. The second of a two-volume series, Syria from Reform to Revolt: Culture, Society, and Religion draws together closely observed, critical and historicized analyses, giving vital insights into Syrian society ... Read more

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  • Ambiguities of Domination

    Politics, Rhetoric, and Symbols in Contemporary Syria

    by Lisa Wedeen ...
    Treating rhetoric and symbols as central rather than peripheral to politics, Lisa Wedeen's groundbreaking book offers a compelling counterargument to those who insist that politics is primarily about material interests and the groups advocating for them. During the thirty-year rule of President Hafiz al-Asad's regime, his image was everywhere. In newspapers, on television, and during orchestrated ... Read more

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  • Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies

    Shahrazad Tells Her Story

    by Nawar Al-Hassan Golley ...
    Authors of autobiographies are always engaged in creating a "self" to present to their readers. This process of self-creation raises a number of intriguing questions: why and how does anyone choose to present herself or himself in an autobiography? Do women and men represent themselves in different ways and, if so, why? How do differences in culture affect the writing of autobiography in various ... Read more

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  • In the Wake of the Poetic

    Palestinian Artists After Darwish

    by Najat Rahman ...
    Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. As it increasingly gains a significant presence on the international scene, much of Palestinian art owes a debt to Mahmoud Darwish, one of the finest contemporary poets, and to Palestinian writers of his generation. Rahman maps the immense ... Read more

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  • Authoritarian Apprehensions

    Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria

    by Lisa Wedeen ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning
    If the Arab uprisings initially heralded the end of tyrannies and a move toward liberal democratic governments, their defeat not only marked a reversal but was of a piece with emerging forms of authoritarianism worldwide. In Authoritarian Apprehensions, Lisa Wedeen draws on her decades-long engagement with Syria to offer an erudite and compassionate analysis of this extraordinary rush of events ... Read more

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  • The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora

    Representations of Place and Transnational Identity

    by Jumana Bayeh ...
    Series series Written Culture and Identity
    The Lebanese civil war, which spanned the years of 1975 to 1990,caused the migration of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens, many of whom are still writing of their experiences. Jumana Bayeh presents an important and major study of the literature of the Lebanese diaspora. Focusing on novels and writings produced in the aftermath of Lebanon's protracted civil war, Bayeh explores the complex ... Read more

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