Arab cinema : history and cultural identity /

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Author / Creator:Shafik, Viola, 1961-
Uniform title:Arabische Film. English
Edition:New rev. ed.
Imprint:Cairo, Egypt ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2007.
Description:vi, 311 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:Motion pictures -- Arab countries.
Film.
Motion pictures.
Arabische Staaten.
Arab countries.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6442328
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ISBN:9789774160653 (pbk.)
9774160657 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references ([279]-292) and indexes.
Summary:"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." "Now updated to reflect cultural shifts in the last ten years of cinema, this revised edition contains a postscript highlighting the latest developments in popular film and cinema d'auteur, with a special focus on Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Tunisia, and Palestine"--BOOK JACKET.
Other form:Online version: Shafik, Viola, 1961- Arabische Film. English. Arab cinema. New rev. ed. Cairo, Egypt ; New York : The American University in Cairo Press, 2007
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Names, Titles, Dates, and Credits
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • La dame aux camellias: an example of cultural repackaging
  • Realism
  • History in Cinema
  • Cinema d'auteur
  • 4. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Titles
  • Index of Names