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Arab cinema travels : transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and beyond / Kay Dickinson.
Van Pelt Library PN1993.5.A65 D53 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickinson, Kay, 1972- author.
- Series:
- Cultural histories of cinema
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Arab countries--History.
- Motion pictures.
- Travel in motion pictures.
- History.
- Arab countries.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 221 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave on behalf of the British Film Institute, 2016.
- Summary:
- More than simply a survey of film across the Arab region, Arab Cinema Travels offers a fascinating and expansive examination of Arab film culture in wider historical and geopolitical contexts. Centred on the movement of moving pictures, it explores the considerable impacts of travel and mobility on the nature of Arab cinema - from migration and expulsion, to pilgrimage and tourism. Starting with the inventive traditions of Arabic travelogues, the text traces the manifold pathways that converge in the cinemas of Syria, Palestine and Dubai. Syrian production bursts out of long-held practices of studying abroad, this time in the film schools of the Eastern Bloc. Palestinian movies react to international assumptions about the Holy Land, informed by pilgrimage accounts - ironizing the supposed freedoms of the road movie. Dubai launches its fledgling industry off the back of centuries' worth of trade route management, logistics expertise and labour migration. Contributing to the burgeoning field of transnational cinema studies, this compelling, buoyant and urgent text is essential reading for students of Film, Media Studies, Communication Studies, Arabic, Middle Eastern Studies and Tourism. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Fellow Travellers: Approaches To and Through the Journey... 11
- 2 Red and Green Stars in Broad Daylight: A Socialist Talah al-'Ilm for Syrian State Cinema... 39
- 3 The Road of Most Resistance: Film-making of the Second Palestinian Intifada... 81
- 4 'Travel and Profit from It': Dubai's Forays into Film... 119.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781844577859
- 1844577856
- 9781844577842
- 1844577848
- OCLC:
- 948790113
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