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  • Adaptation in Turkish Literature, Cinema and Media

    Edición de Seda Öz, Taner Can ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This edited collection provides a comprehensive exploration of key trends and methodologies in adaptation within the Turkish context, examining how socio-political and economic conditions shape the interaction between texts, cultures, and media industries. With thirteen essays covering adaptation topics from the early 1940s to the present, the collection addresses a diverse range of subjects, ... Leer más

    $161.99 USD

  • Orhan Pamuk: Critical Essays on a Novelist between Worlds

    A Collection of Essays on Orhan Pamuk

    This collection of new essays brings together scholarly examinations of a writer who—despite the prestige that the Nobel Prize has earned him—remains controversial with respect to his place in the literary tradition of his home country. This is in part because the positioning of Turkey itself in relation to the cultural divide between East and West has been the subject of a debate going back to ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Magical Realism in Postcolonial British Fiction: History, Nation, and Narration

    Series Libro 19 - Studies in English Literatures
    This study aims at delineating the cultural work of magical realism as a dominant narrative mode in postcolonial British fiction through a detailed analysis of four magical realist novels: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight`s Children (1981), Shashi Tharoor`s The Great Indian Novel (1989), Ben Okri`s The Famished Road (1991), and Syl Cheney-Coker`s The Last Harmattan of Alusine Dunbar (1990). The main ... Leer más

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  • The Migrant Image

    The Art and Politics of Documentary during Global Crisis

    de T. J. Demos ...
    In The Migrant Image T. J. Demos examines the ways contemporary artists have reinvented documentary practices in their representations of mobile lives: refugees, migrants, the stateless, and the politically dispossessed. He presents a sophisticated analysis of how artists from the United States, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East depict the often ignored effects of globalization and the ... Leer más

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  • Andrei Tarkovsky

    Elements of Cinema

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Reading Arab Women's Autobiographies

    Shahrazad Tells Her Story

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Morocco Bound

    Disorienting America's Maghreb, from Casablanca to the Marrakech Express

    Series series New Americanists
    Until attention shifted to the Middle East in the early 1970s, Americans turned most often toward the Maghreb—Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and the Sahara—for their understanding of “the Arab.” In Morocco Bound, Brian T. Edwards examines American representations of the Maghreb during three pivotal decades—from 1942, when the United States entered the North African campaign of World War II, through ... Leer más

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  • Encountering Morocco

    Fieldwork and Cultural Understanding

    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Encountering Morocco introduces readers to life in this North African country through vivid accounts of fieldwork as personal experience and intellectual journey. We meet the contributors at diverse stages of their careers–from the unmarried researcher arriving for her first stint in the field to the seasoned fieldworker returning with spouse and children. They offer frank descriptions of what it ... Leer más

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  • A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2

    The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978

    de Hamid Naficy ...
    Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran’s peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national ... Leer más

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  • Popular Egyptian Cinema

    Gender, Class, and Nation

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Women Write Iran

    Nostalgia and Human Rights from the Diaspora

    de Nima Naghibi ...
    Women Write Iran is the first full-length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives across genres—including memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novels—and finds that they are tied together by the experience of the 1979 Iranian revolution as a traumatic event and by a powerful nostalgia for an idealized ... Leer más

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  • Storytelling in World Cinemas

    Forms

    Edición de Lina Khatib ...
    Storytelling in World Cinemas, Vol. 1: Forms is an innovative collection of essays that discuss how different cinemas of the world tell stories. The book locates European, Asian, African, and Latin American films within their wider cultural and artistic frameworks, showing how storytelling forms in cinema are infused with influences from other artistic, literary, and oral traditions. This volume ... Leer más

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