Arab cinema : history and cultural identity

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Arab cinema : history and cultural identity

Viola Shafik

American University in Cairo Press, c2016

Rev. and updated ed

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Previous ed.: 2007

Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-398) and indexes

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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 how indigenous and external factors combine in a dynamic process of "cultural repackaging."Now updated to reflect cultural shifts in the last two decades, this revised edition contains a new afterword highlighting the latest developments in popular and in art-house filmmaking, with a special focus on Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, and the Gulf States. While exploring problematic issues such as European co-production for Arab art films, including their relation to cultural identity and their reception in the region and abroad, this new edition introduces readers to some of the most compelling cinematic works of the last decades.

Table of Contents

Introduction Theoretical basis Culture and identity 1. 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 2. Artistic Roots of Arab Cinema Image and symbolic arrangement The theater Language and the art of narration Music 3. Cultural Identity and Genre The literary adaptation Realism History in cinema Cinema d'auteur 4. Conclusion 5. Arab Cinema Today: A Postscript This postscript Arab filmmaking: old and new Cinema in the Maghreb restructured New media and 'independent' cinema Lebanese film: war and antiheroism Palestine: the cost of resistance Iraq: deconstructing the nation? Syrian film: art or paralysis? Tunisia: the dogma of female liberation Reconnecting to the popular Notes Bibliography Index of Titles Index of Names

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