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• Motion pictures—Arab countries—History [Browse]

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Building on a growing body of literature, this Handbook provides an up-to-date and authoritative survey of Arab cinema.

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Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Endorsement
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Note On Style
• Introduction
• The Diversity of Arab Films
• Gender
• Religion
• Politics of Identity
• References
• Part 1 Overview
• 1 In the Shadow of Critique: Major Themes of Maghrebi Cinema
• Films Without an Industry: Taking Stock
• First Critical Period
• Second Critical Period
• Third Critical Period
• On Several Critical Themes: The Voiceless Body
• Political Violence: The Return of Memory
• Conclusion
• Notes
• 2 The Story of Iraqi Cinema: A Dream Shattered By Political and Economic Tribulations
• The Beginnings
• Public Sector Cinema in Iraq
• Private Sector Cinema in Iraq
• The General Organization for Cinema and Theater
• Mixed-sector Cinema
• Iraqi Cinema After 2003
• References (All in Arabic)
• 3 Filmmaking and Film Cultures On the Arabian Peninsula
• Past Frameworks
• Undefining "The Region"
• Festivals, Funding, and Production Infrastructure
• Feature Films
• Short Films
• Conclusion: "Maafi Malum"
• 4 Development of the Cinema Industry in Egypt
• Egyptian Cinema and Pan-Arab Identity
• The Cinema of the Private Sector
• Contractors' Cinema
• The Decline of Egyptian Cinema
• Calls for Independent Cinema
• Television Lures Producers
• Impediments
• 5 Reimagining Sudan: Sufism, Revolt, and National Identity(ies) in Film
• Cinema in the Global South: Facilitating Dialogue, Challenging Norms, and Constructing Identities
• Negotiating Identity in Sudan: The Confluence of History, Culture, and Cinema
• Sudanese Cinema: An Historical Backdrop
• Sudan's Cinema: A Canvas for Identity, Belonging, and Societal Reflection.
• Sufism's Influence On Sudanese Cinema: A Mystic Lens for Cultural Narratives
• Sudan Film Factory: A Rekindling of Sudan's Silver Screen
• Goodbye Julia: A Cinematic Lens On Sudan's Societal Transformation and the Quest for National Unity
• A Nation Under Siege
• Note
• 6 Cinema in the Levant
• What Is Levant Cinema?
• Palestinian Cinema
• Syrian Cinema
• Lebanese Cinema
• Jordanian Cinema
• 7 Jordanian Cinema: A Burgeoning Scene
• A Brief History of Jordanian Cinema
• Jordanian Films and the Question of Representation
• Captain Abu Raed (2008)
• Cherkess (2011)
• Theeb (2015)
• 3000 Nights (2016)
• 200 Meters (2020)
• Amira (2021)
• Farha (2021)
• 8 Arab Animation Cinema: From Sand to Screen
• The Absence of Arab Animation History
• The Scarcity of Animation Academies and Festivals in the Arab Region
• Increasing the Global Visibility of Arab Animated Films
• The Production of Arab Animated Films By International Animators
• The Production of Animated Feature Films Through the Lens of Arab Talents
• Arab Animation Cinema as Creative Resistance
• 9 The Value Chain of the Film Sector
• Film Production
• Film Distribution and Piracy
• Ticket Sales
• Film Festivals
• Over-the-top (OTT) Content
• Part 2 Gender Representation
• 10 Gender Representation in Algerian Cinema
• The First Generation: Colonial Cinema in Algeria
• Algerian Cinema's Second-Generation Films
• Algerian Third-Generation Films
• Gender Representation in Films
• Gender Representation in Two Algerian Women's Films
• 11 Cassettes, Cameras, and Computers: The Gendering of Media in Arab Narrative Cinema
• Introduction.
• Omar Gatlato and the Cassette Tape Recorder
• Super-8 in West Beirut
• The Book of Sun and Video in the Digital Age
• Toward an Inclusive Cinematic Arab Media Historiography
• 12 Fictive Witnessing: Leila Kilani's On the Edge and Kaouther Ben Hania's Beauty and the Dogs
• Kilani and Hania's Cinematic Evolution
• Exploration of Female Protagonists
• Gender Dynamics and Societal Reflections
• 13 Confused, Rebellious, and Depressed: Liberated Women in Egyptian Cinema
• Method
• Defining "Liberation"
• Women in Egyptian Cinema
• The End of the Journey of Freedom
• Motives of Liberation
• Discussion and Conclusion
• 14 Marco: A Levantine Queer Encounter in London
• Guapa: Political Oppression, Resistance, and Class Struggle Through a Queer Lens
• From the Literary to the Cinematic: Language and Audience in Haddad's Oeuvre
• Marco: A Multimedia Message for Multilingual Audiences
• Short-lived Romance: Two Immigrants, Two Stories
• "Incomplete Citizenship"
• "Making By the Powerless"
• Queer Art as Activism
• 15 Against "Double Erasure": Women's Filmmaking in the Aftermath of the Uprisings in Yemen, Libya, and Saudi Arabia
• Naziha Arebi Documenting the Aftermath of the Uprising in Libya
• Sara Ishaq Documenting the Aftermath of the Uprising in Yemen
• Safa Al Ahmad Documenting the Aftermath of the Uprising in Saudi Arabia
• Women's Filmmaking Against "Double Erasure"
• Making a Film Ethically: Challenges to Women's Filmmaking in Yemen, Libya, and Saudi Arabia
• Acknowledgments
• 16 The Gulf Female Gaze: Women Filmmakers and the Creative Representation of Sociopolitical Issues in the GCC States
• A Brief History of Filmmaking in the Arabian Peninsula
• GCC Women's Liberal Arts Education and Social Impact
• Gulf Women's Films and Success at International Film Festivals
• Women Filmmakers and the Creative Representation of Sociopolitical Issues: The Case of Saudi Arabia
• Part 3 Religion
• 17 "Fly, Horses of God, and the Gates of Paradise Will Open for You": Radicalization and Terrorism in Moroccan Cinema
• Terrorism and Arab Cinema
• Urban Marginalization
• Sociopolitical Pathologies of Extremism
• 18 Religion, Authority, and Morality Codes in Arab Cinema
• Literature Review
• Representing Religion
• Representing Religious Minorities
• Narrating Religious History
• Formal Engagement With Islamic Principles
• Sallama
• The Message
• I Love Cinema
• Bab' .Aziz
• A Thousand Months
• Geographical Shifts and Modesty Codes
• 19 From Terrorist to Pious Believer: Depictions of Islam in Arab Cinema
• State and Religion
• The Early History of Islam
• Everyday Realism Mixed With Religion
• Call to Prayer
• Holy Places and the Shrine
• Quran Scholars
• Political and Militant Islam
• Portraying False and True Believers
• 20 Can Cinema Slow the Flow of Blood?
• 'Ashura in the Context of Shi'i Political Theology
• Spirituality and Abstraction
• Between Spirituality and Action: Ritual
• Extracting the Individual From the Ritual
• Critique of Embodiment and Affect
• Part 4 Politics of Identity
• 21 Political Ideology and the Shaping of Modern Arab Cinema
• Cinema in the Age of Decolonization
• Nationalist Cinema of the Golden Age
• Post-Nasser Decline
• Moroccan and Tunisian Cinema.
• Palestinian Cinema of Occupation
• Gulf Cinema in the Age of Neoliberal Authoritarianism
• 22 The Problem of Palestine's Place in a Globalized Palestinian Cinema
• The Israeli Discursive Apparatus
• Space and Place: Nomads and Unruly Subjects
• The 1993 Oslo Accords: A Very Brief Politico-Spatial History
• An Overview of the Palestinian Cinema
• The Post-Oslo Palestinian Cinema: A Nomadic Body of Work
• A Fragmented Place and a Stateless Cinema
• Palestinian Subjectivity: Oscillating Between Nomad and Flâneur
• 23 From the Square to the Screen: New Subjectivity in Post-Arab Spring Egyptian Cinema
• Methods
• Truth Is Complicated: US Vs. Arab/Muslim Trauma On Screen
• Continuity, Change, and Revolution
• Post-Arab Spring's Arab-West Encounter
• Politics, Arts, and Culture in Egypt 2011 and Beyond
• Febrayer Al-Aswad (Black February)
• Before the Spring
• Nawara
• 18 Days
• 24 Filmmaking Shadows: The Pitfall of Morocco as Hollywood of Africa
• Morocco as Hollywood of Africa
• Hollywood of Africa: A Token of Symbolic Violence
• 25 Moroccan Amazigh Cinema
• Historical and Production Context
• Founding Figures, Cultural Heritage, Activism, and Cinema
• Major Themes
• Diaspora Initiatives
• Festivals and Filmic Afterlives
• 26 Moving the Image: Film in the Arabian Gulf
• Film and Petro-Modernity
• Shifts in Culture: Cinematic Spaces
• Film in Emerging Visual Cultures
• Triumph of the Will to Visibility
• Part 5 Migration and Diaspora
• 27 Harragas: Algerian Films About Clandestine Migration
• The Border Is a Barrier to Overcome.
• The Algerian Migration Landscape.

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ISBN

9781040024072 ((electronic bk.))

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