Arab Cultural Studies

History, Politics and the Popular
Herausgeber: Valassopoulos, Anastasia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks to both showcase and further develop innovative research and debates on contemporary Arab cultural production. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415631174
• ISBN-10: 0415631173
• Artikelnr.: 36144113

Autorenporträt

Anastasia Valassopoulos is a Lecturer in World Literature at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests include postcolonial literature, culture of the Middle East and North Africa and the wider cultural production and reception of Arab women's film and music. She is the author of Contemporary Arab Women Writers (2007), and has also published work on Arab film and music, Middle Eastern feminism and Arab-American Writing.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Dina Matar 1. Introduction: Arab Cultural Studies Anastasia
Valassopoulos 2. Arab Cultural Studies - Thinking Aloud: Theorizing and
Planning for the Future of a Discipline Anastasia Valassopoulos, Tarik
Sabry, Caroline Rooney, Mark Westmoreland, Adel Iskandar and Rasha Salti
3. Impossible Witness: Israeli Visuality, Palestinian Testimony and the
Gaza War Rebecca L. Stein 4. A History of New Media in the Arab Middle East
Walter Armbrust 5. Impossible Intimacies: Towards a Visual Politics of
"Touch" at the Israeli-Palestinian Border Anna Ball 6. Consuming Palestine:
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in Metropolitan Popular Culture Anna
Bernard 7. Broken Heart of the City: Youssef Chahine's Bab al-Hadid (Cairo
Station) Joel Gordon 8. Satellite Arcades: Three-Dimensional Puppets and
the Coin-Operated Interface Iman Hamam 9. Popular Culture and Nationalism
in Egypt: 'Arab Lotfi and Egyptian Popular Music Dalia Said Mostafa 10.
Life Is Like a Bowl of Fish: The Aquarium, the French New Wave and the
Urban Reflection of the Cairene Self Karim Tartoussieh 11. The Moderation
of Creative Dissidence in Syria: Reem Ali's Documentary Zabad Stefanie Van
de Peer