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Subject(s)

• Motion pictures—Lebanon [Browse]
• Lebanon—History—Civil War, 1975-1990—Motion pictures and the war [Browse]
• War films—Lebanon [Browse]

Series

Tauris world cinema series [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

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ISBN

• 9781845116286
• 9781845116279
• 1845116275
• 1845116283 ((pbk.))

LCCN

2009275787

OCLC

154703647

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