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1 online resource |
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Introduction: auteur directors, political dissent, and cultural critique / Josef Gugler -- Nabil Maleh: Syria's leopard (Syria) / Christa Salamandra -- Jocelyne Saab: a lifetime journey in search of freedom and beauty (Lebanon) / Dalia Said Mostafa -- Michel Khleifi: filmmaker of memory (Palestine) / Tim Kennedy -- Elia Suleiman: narrating negative space (Palestine) / Refqa Abu-Remaileh -- Youssef Chahine: devouring mimicries or juggling with self and other (Egypt) / Viola Shafik -- Daoud Abd El-Sayed: parody and borderline existence (Egypt) / Viola Shafik -- Yousry Nasrallah: the pursuit of autonomy in the Arab and European film markets (Egypt) / Benjamin Geer -- Mohamed Chouikh: from anticolonial commemoration to a cinema of contestation (Algeria) / Guy Austin -- Merzak Allouache: (self- )censorship, social critique, and the limits of political engagement in contemporary Algerian cinema (Algeria) / Will Higbee -- Nabil Ayouch: transgression, identity, and difference (Morocco) / Jonathan Smolin |
| Summary |
Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled here represent principal national cinemas of the Arab world-Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Syria. Although they have produced many of the region's most-renowned films and gained recognition at major international festivals, with few exceptions these filmmakers have received little critical attention. All ten share a concern with giving image and voice to people struggling against authoritarian regimes, patriarchal traditions, or religious fundamentalism-theirs is a cinm̌a engag.̌ The featured directors are Daoud Abd El-Sayed, Merzak Allouache, Nabil Ayouch, Youssef Chahine, Mohamed Chouikh, Michel Khleifi, Nabil Maleh, Yousry Nasrallah, Jocelyne Saab, and Elia Suleiman |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Includes filmography |
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English |
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Motion pictures -- Arab countries -- History and criticism
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Motion picture producers and directors -- Arab countries
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Arab countries
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Arab countries
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Motion picture producers and directors
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures -- Political aspects
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Motion pictures -- Social aspects
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Arab countries
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gugler, Josef, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780253016584 |
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0253016584 |
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