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.) |
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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 |
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