Humor in Middle Eastern cinema

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Humor in Middle Eastern cinema

edited by Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman

(Contemporary approaches to film and media series / general editor, Barry Keith Grant)

Wayne State University Press, c2014

  • : pbk

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Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-255) and index

Includes filmography (p. 257-258)

Contents of Works

  • Humor, loss, and the possibility for politics in recent Palestinian cinema / Najat Rahman
  • Strategies of subversion in Ben Ali's Tunisia : allegory and satire in Moncef Dhouib's The TV is coming / Robert Lang
  • Satiric traversals in the comedy of Mehrān Modiri : space, irony, and national allegory on Iranian television / Cyrus Ali Zargar
  • Ethnic humor, stereotypes, and cultural power in Israeli cinema / Elise Burton
  • The laughter of Youssef Chahine / Najat Rahman
  • Comedic mediations : war and genre in The outcasts / Somy Kim
  • Humor and the cinematic sublime in Kiarostami's The wind will carry us / Gayatri Devi
  • America the oppressively funny : humor and anti-Americanisms in modern Turkish cinema / Perin Gurel
  • Laughter across borders : the case of the Bollywood film Tere Bin Laden / Mara Matta

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