Title Screens and veils : Maghrebi women's cinema / Florence Martin

Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (x, 271 pages) : illustrations Series New directions in national cinemas New directions in national cinemas. Contents Overture: Maghrebi women's transvergent cinema -- Transnational feminist storytellers: Shahrazad, Assia, and Farida. Assia Djebar's transvergent Nuba: the Nuba of the women of Mount Chenoua (Algeria, 1978) -- Farida Benlyazid's initiation narrative: A door to the sky (Morocco, 1988) -- Transvergent screens. Yamina Bachir-Chouikh's transvergent echoes: Rachida (Algeria, 2002) -- Raja Amari's screen of the haptic: Red satin (Tunisia, 2002) -- Nadia El Fani's multiple screens: Bedwin hacker (Tunisia, 2002) -- From Dunyazad to transvergent audiences. Yasmine Kassari's "burning" screens: The sleeping child (Morocco, 2004) -- Selma Baccar's transvergent spectatorship: Flower of oblivion (Tunisia, 2006) -- Coda Summary Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various meanings of the Arabic term hijab (veil, curtain, screen). Martin analyzes these films on their own theoretical terms, developing the notion of "transvergence" to examine how Maghrebi women's cinema is flexi Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Motion pictures -- Africa, North -- History -- 20th century Motion pictures -- Africa, North -- History -- 21st century Women motion picture producers and directors -- Africa, North Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Africa, North Women in motion pictures. ART -- Film & Video. PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference. PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General. Motion pictures Motion pictures -- Social aspects Women in motion pictures Women motion picture producers and directors Frauenfilm SUBJECT Africa, North -- In motion pictures. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001714 Subject North Africa Maghreb Genre/Form Electronic book History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780253005656 0253005655 9786613626431 6613626430

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