Arab cinema : history and cultural identity /
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Author / Creator: | Shafik, Viola, 1961- |
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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 |
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