Popular Egyptian cinema
Subtitle: gender, class, and nation
By: Viola Shafik.
Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cairo, Egypt; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9789774160530
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Egypt.
Description: Viola Shafik examines popular and commercial movies from Egypt's film industry, including a number of the biggest box-office hits widely distributed in Egypt and the Arab world. She examines these films against the backdrop of the country's overall socio-political development, from the emergence of the film industry in the 1930s, through the Nasser and Sadat eras, up to the era of globalization.
Notes: "Segments of different chapters have been published earlier under different titles." --T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-338) and index.