Ten Arab Filmmakers

Political Dissent and Social Critique
Herausgeber: Gugler, Josef

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Produktbeschreibung

Josef Gugler is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent (IUP, 2003) and editor of Film in the Middle East and North Africa: Creative Dissidence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9780253016522
• ISBN-10: 0253016525
• Artikelnr.: 41608427

Autorenporträt

Josef Gugler is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent (IUP, 2003) and editor of Film in the Middle East and North Africa: Creative Dissidence.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Auteur Directors, Political Dissent, and Social Critique
Josef Gugler
1. Nabil Maleh: Syria's Leopard (Syria) Christa Salamandra
2. Jocelyne Saab: A Lifetime Journey in Search of Freedom and Beauty
(Lebanon) Dalia Said Mostafa
3. Michel Khleifi: Filmmaker of Memory (Palestine) Tim Kennedy
4. Elia Suleiman: Narrating Negative Space (Palestine) Refqa Abu-Remaileh
5. Youssef Chahine: Devouring Mimicries or Juggling with Self and Other
(Egypt) Viola Shafik
6. Daoud Abd El-Sayed: Parody and Borderline Existence (Egypt) Viola Shafik
7. Yousry Nasrallah: The Pursuit of Autonomy in the Arab and European Film
Markets (Egypt) Benjamin Geer
8. Mohamed Chouikh: From Anti-colonial Commemoration to a Cinema of
Contestation (Algeria) Guy Austin
9. Merzak Allouache: (Self-)Censorship, Social Critique and the Limits of
Political Engagement in Contemporary Algerian Cinema (Algeria) Will Higbee
10. Nabil Ayouch: Transgression, Identity, and Difference (Morocco)
Jonathan Smolin
Film Index
Name Index