Screens and veils
Subtitle: Maghrebi women's cinema
By: Florence Martin
Series: New directions in national cinemas
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780253356680; 9780253223418
Subjects: Motion pictures; In motion pictures; Women motion picture producers and directors; Women in motion pictures; History
Description: Examined within their economic, cultural & political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation & 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overture: Maghrebi women's transvergent cinema; title: Transnational feminist storytellers: Shahrazad, Assia, and Farida. Assia Djebar's transvergent Nuba: the Nuba of the women of Mount Chenoua (Algeria, 1978); title: Farida Benlyazid's initiation narrative: A door to the sky (Morocco, 1988); title: Transvergent screens. Yamina Bachir-Chouikh's transvergent echoes: Rachida (Algeria, 2002); title: Raja Amari's screen of the haptic: Red satin (Tunisia, 2002); title: Nadia El Fani's multiple screens: Bedwin hacker (Tunisia, 2002); title: From Dunyazad to transvergent audiences. Yasmine Kassari's "burning" screens: The sleeping child (Morocco, 2004); title: Selma Baccar's transvergent spectatorship: Flower of oblivion (Tunisia, 2006); title: Coda.