Ten Arab filmmakers
Subtitle: political dissent and social critique
By: edited by Josef Gugler
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780253016447; 9780253016522
Subjects: Motion pictures; History and criticism; Motion picture producers and directors
Description: 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 cinéma engagé. 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes .

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: auteur directors, political dissent, and cultural critique / Josef Gugler; title: Nabil Maleh: Syria's leopard (Syria) / Christa Salamandra; title: Jocelyne Saab: a lifetime journey in search of freedom and beauty (Lebanon) / Dalia Said Mostafa; title: Michel Khleifi: filmmaker of memory (Palestine) / Tim Kennedy; title: Elia Suleiman: narrating negative space (Palestine) / Refqa Abu-Remaileh; title: Youssef Chahine: devouring mimicries or juggling with self and other (Egypt) / Viola Shafik; title: Daoud Abd El-Sayed: parody and borderline existence (Egypt) / Viola Shafik; title: Yousry Nasrallah: the pursuit of autonomy in the Arab and European film markets (Egypt) / Benjamin Geer; title: Mohamed Chouikh: from anticolonial commemoration to a cinema of contestation (Algeria) / Guy Austin; title: Merzak Allouache: (self-)censorship, social critique, and the limits of political engagement in contemporary Algerian cinema (Algeria) / Will Higbee; title: Nabil Ayouch: transgression, identity, and difference (Morocco) / Jonathan Smolin.