Arab Cinema History and Cultural Identity. New Revised Edition

Name: Arab Cinema History and Cultural Identity. New Revised Edition
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ISBN: 9789774160653

ISBN-10: 9774160657

ISBN-13: 9789774160653

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Viola Shafik

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Since it was first published in 1998, Viola Shafik's Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity has become an indispensable work for scholars of film and the contemporary Middle East. Combining detailed narrative history-economic, ideological, and aesthetic-with thought-provoking analysis, Arab Cinema provides a comprehensive overview of cinema in the Arab world, tracing the industry's development from colonial times to the present. It analyzes the ambiguous relationship with commercial western cinema, and the effect of Egyptian market dominance in the region. Tracing the influence on the medium of local and regional art forms and modes of thought, both classical and popular, Shafik shows…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Publication date: 4/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 9.00" wide x 5.60" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Viola Shafik is a filmmaker and researcher currently teaching cinema at the American University in Cairo.



Acknowledgments


Names, Titles, Dates, and Credits


Introduction



The History of Arab Cinema Encounter with a new medium


Production during the colonial period


Cinema and resistance


National film making and the state


Education and know-how


Hollywood or socialism


The crisis of the public sector;Censorship


Cinema artisanal and coproduction


Diversification in the satellite era



Artistic Roots of Arab Cinema Image and symbolic arrangement


The theater


Language and the art of narration


Music



Cultural Identity and Genre The literary adaptation


La dame aux camellias: an example of cultural repackaging


Realism


History in Cinema


Cinema d'auteur



Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index of Titles


Index of Names