Filming the modern Middle East : politics in the cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab world /

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Author / Creator:Khatib, Lina (Lina H.)
Imprint:London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Description:viii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Library of modern Middle East studies ; 57
Subject:Politics in motion pictures.
Motion pictures -- Arab countries -- History.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
Motion pictures.
Politics in motion pictures.
Middle East -- In motion pictures.
Arab countries.
Middle East.
United States.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6230875
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ISBN:1845111923 (hbk.)
9781845111922 (hbk.)
1845111915 (pbk.)
9781845111915 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-227) and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Orientalism and the Cinematic Middle East
  • Chapter I. The Politicized Landscape
  • Why space matters
  • Hollywood's spatial political stage
  • The spatial contradictions of Arab cinemas
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter II. Gendered Tools of Nationalism
  • The changing face of the American male/nation
  • The female nations of Arab cinemas
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter III. Conflicts Within and Without: The Arab-Israeli Conflict (and the Gulf War)
  • Hollywood's America: world police
  • Arab cinemas: nostalgia and resistance
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter IV. From the Other Outside to the Other Within: Representing Islamic Fundamentalism
  • Why fundamentalism matters
  • Hollywood's fundamentalist terrorists
  • Islamic fundamentalism in Egyptian and Algerian cinemas: the Other within
  • Conclusion
  • Epilogue: On Difference, Resistance, and Nationalism
  • On difference
  • On resistance
  • On nationalism
  • Beyond the East/West divide
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • General Index
  • Index of Films