Film in the Middle East and North Africa
Subtitle: creative dissidence
By: edited by Josef Gugler
Publisher: American University Of Cairo Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: [Cairo], Egypt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9789774164248
Subjects: Motion pictures; In motion pictures
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Creative responses to conflict / Josef Gugler; title: Regime critics confront censorship in Iranian cinema / Eric Egan. The hidden half (Tahmineh Milani): love, idealism, and politics / Fakhreddin Azimi; title: Marriage of the blessed (Mohsen Makhmalbaf): the wounds of war and the betrayal of the revolution / Eric Egan; title: Under the skin of the city (Rakhshan Bani-Etemad): under the surface contrasts / Rini Cobbey; title: Stray dogs (Marziyeh Meshkini): cruelty and humanity amid hardship in Afghanistan / Eric Egan; title: Tolerated parodies of politics in Syrian cinema / Lisa Wedeen. The dupes (Tawfik Saleh): three generations uprooted from Palestine and betrayed / Nadia Yaqub; title: The extras (Nabil Maleh): lovers suffer the twin repressions of patriarchal culture and a police state / Josef Gugler; title: Lebanese cinema and the representation of war / Lina Khatib. In the shadows of the city (Jean Khalil Chamoun): reconciling the diverse legacies of a collective memory / Edward Gibeau; title: Israeli cinema engaging the conflict / Nurith Gertz and Yael Munk. Kedma (Amos Gitai): the birth of two nations at war in 1948 / Nurith Gertz, Gal Hermoni, and Yael Munk; title: Avanti popolo (Rafi Bukaee): battle cry of the fallen / Judd Ne'eman and Yael Munk; title: A chronicle of Palestinian cinema / Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi. Waiting (Rashid Masharawi): a scattered people waiting for a shared future / Nadia Yaqub; title: Tale of the three jewels (Michel Khleifi): children living and dreaming amid violence in Gaza / Nurith Gertz and George Khleifi; title: Paradise now (Hany Abu-Assad): narrating a failed politics / Nadia Yaqub; title: Political film in Egypt / Walter Armbrust. Destiny (Youssef Chahine): liberal and fundamentalist Islam clash amid the splendor of twelfth-century Andalusia / Josef Gugler; title: Closed doors (Atef Hetata): the attractions of fundamentalism / Josef Gugler and Kim Jensen; title: Cinema and state in Tunisia / Florence Martin; title: Bedwin hacker (Nadia El Fani): a hacker challenges Western domination of the global media / Josef Gugler; title: From state production to cinéma d'auteur in Algeria / Roy Armes. Days of glory (Rachid Bouchareb): another vision of French history / Olivier Barlet; title: Hamlet of women (Mohamed Chouikh): village chronicles from a time of terrorism / Denise Brahimi; title: Morocco: a national cinema with large ambitions / Kevin Dwyer. Ali Zaoua, prince of the streets (Nabil Ayouch): the harsh life of street children and the poetics of childhood / Josef Gugler.