Ten Arab filmmakers : political dissent and social critique / edited by Josef Gugler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gugler, Josef, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Arab countries--History and criticism.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture producers and directors--Arab countries.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Motion pictures--Political aspects--Arab countries.

Motion pictures--Social aspects--Arab countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The featured directors are Daoud Abd El-Sayed, Merzak Allouache, Nabil Ayouch, Youssef Chahine, Mohamed Chouikh, Michel Khleifi, Nabil Maleh, Yousry Nasrallah, Jocelyne Saab, and Elia Suleiman.

Contents:

Introduction: auteur directors, political dissent, and cultural critique / Josef Gugler

Nabil Maleh: Syria's leopard (Syria) / Christa Salamandra

Jocelyne Saab: a lifetime journey in search of freedom and beauty (Lebanon) / Dalia Said Mostafa

Michel Khleifi: filmmaker of memory (Palestine) / Tim Kennedy

Elia Suleiman: narrating negative space (Palestine) / Refqa Abu-Remaileh

Youssef Chahine: devouring mimicries or juggling with self and other (Egypt) / Viola Shafik

Daoud Abd El-Sayed: parody and borderline existence (Egypt) / Viola Shafik

Yousry Nasrallah: the pursuit of autonomy in the Arab and European film markets (Egypt) / Benjamin Geer

Mohamed Chouikh: from anticolonial commemoration to a cinema of contestation (Algeria) / Guy Austin

Merzak Allouache: (self-)censorship, social critique, and the limits of political engagement in contemporary Algerian cinema (Algeria) / Will Higbee

Nabil Ayouch: transgression, identity, and difference (Morocco) / Jonathan Smolin.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-01658-4

OCLC:

908447737