Popular Egyptian cinema [electronic resource] : gender, class, and nation / Viola Shafik.

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Shafik, Viola, 1961- [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
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Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2007.
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1 online resource (361 p.)

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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 1930's, through the Nasser and Sadat eras, up to the era of globalization.In unearthing the largely contradictory meanings conveyed by different films, Popular
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English
Contents
  • 4160530
  • 9789774160530.
ISBN
  • 1-61797-010-7
  • 1-61797-375-0
  • 1-936190-24-9
OCLC
  • 948378152
  • 932343755
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