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1 online resource (409 pages) |
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Film and Culture Series |
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Film and culture.
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Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Nation, the State, and the Cinema; 2. "The freedom to be different, to choose your own life": Man of Ashes (Nouri Bouzid, 1986); 3. Laughter in the Dark: Sexuality and the Police State in Halfaouine (Férid Boughedir, 1990); 4. Sexual Allegories of National Identity: Bezness (Nouri Bouzid, 1992); 5. The Colonizer and the Colonized: The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli, 1994); 6. "It takes two of us to discover truth": Essaïda (Mohamed Zran, 1996) |
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7. "It takes a lot of unruly individuals to make a free people": Bedwin Hacker (Nadia El Fani, 2002)8. Inventing the Postcolonial Nation/Constructing a Usable Past: The TV Is Coming (Moncef Dhouib, 2006); 9. "Destiny answers the people's call for life, darkness will be dispelled, and chains will break"; Notes; Filmography; Glossary; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas, a model of equipoise between?East" and?West" and the defender of a fierce, sovereign style. Even during the repressive regime that ruled Tunisia from 1987 to 2011, a generation of filmmakers produced allegories of resistance that defied their society's increasingly illiberal trends. In New Tunisian Cinema, Robert Lang reads eight contemporary Tunisian films, many by some of the nation's best-known directors, including: Man of Ashes (1986), Bezness (1992), and Making Of (2006) by Nouri Bouzid; Halfaouine (1990) b |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Tunisia
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Postcolonialism.
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postcolonialism.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Direction & Production.
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Motion pictures
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Postcolonialism
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Tunisia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780231537193 |
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0231537190 |
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