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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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  • Resistance, Dissidence, Revolution

    Documentary Film Esthetics in the Middle East and North Africa

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Ten Arab Filmmakers

    Political Dissent and Social Critique

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Documentary Filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa

    Edición de 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, ... Leer más

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  • Andrei Tarkovsky

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  • Syria from Reform to Revolt

    Volume 2: Culture, Society, and Religion

    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 ... Leer más

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    Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria

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  • The Literature of the Lebanese Diaspora

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