Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 1975 have been about this war. Lina Khatib takes 1975 Beirut as her starting point, and takes us right through to today for this, the first major book on Lebanese cinema and its links with politics and national identity.She examines how Lebanon is imagined in such films as Jocelyn Saab's "Once Upon a Time, Beirut", Ghassan Salhab's "Terra Incognita", and Ziad Doueiri's "West Beirut". In so doing, she re-examines the im.
Notes
Includes filmography.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and indexes.
Contents
On Lebanese national identity
A brief history of cinema in Lebanon
Imagining Beirut
Social and religious breakdown
Violence and masculinity
Mothers, fighters and taboo breakers
War and memory
Epilogue : on national cinema.
ISBN
9781845116286
9781845116279
1845116275
1845116283 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2009275787
OCLC
154703647
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