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Popular Egyptian cinema : gender, class, and nation / Viola Shafik.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shafik, Viola, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Egypt.
- Motion pictures.
- National characteristics in motion pictures.
- Sex role in motion pictures.
- Social classes in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this groundbreaking work, film scholar Viola Shafik examines popular and commercial movies from Egypt's film industry, including a number of the biggest box-office hits widely distributed in Egypt and the Arab world. Turning a critical eye on a major player in Egyptian cultural life, Shafik examines these films against the backdrop of the country's overall socio-political development, from the emergence of the film industry in the 1930's, through the Nasser and Sadat eras, up to the era of globalization.In unearthing the largely contradictory meanings conveyed by different films, Popular
- Contents:
- 4160530
- 9789774160530.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781617970108
- 1617970107
- 9781617973758
- 1617973750
- 9781936190249
- 1936190249
- OCLC:
- 948378152
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