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Screens and veils : Maghrebi women's cinema / Florence Martin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, Florence, 1959-
- Series:
- New directions in national cinemas.
- New directions in national cinemas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion pictures--Africa, North--History--20th century.
- Motion pictures.
- Motion pictures--Africa, North--History--21st century.
- Women motion picture producers and directors--Africa, North.
- Women motion picture producers and directors.
- Motion pictures--Social aspects--Africa, North.
- Women in motion pictures.
- Africa, North--In motion pictures.
- Africa, North.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various meanings of the Arabic term hijab (veil, curtain, screen). Martin analyzes these films on their own theoretical terms, developing the notion of ""transvergence"" to examine how Maghrebi women's cinema is flexible, playful, and transgressive in its themes, aesthetics, narratives, and modes of a
- Contents:
- Overture: Maghrebi women's transvergent cinema
- Transnational feminist storytellers: Shahrazad, Assia, and Farida. Assia Djebar's transvergent Nuba: the Nuba of the women of Mount Chenoua (Algeria, 1978)
- Farida Benlyazid's initiation narrative: A door to the sky (Morocco, 1988)
- Transvergent screens. Yamina Bachir-Chouikh's transvergent echoes: Rachida (Algeria, 2002)
- Raja Amari's screen of the haptic: Red satin (Tunisia, 2002)
- Nadia El Fani's multiple screens: Bedwin hacker (Tunisia, 2002)
- From Dunyazad to transvergent audiences. Yasmine Kassari's "burning" screens: The sleeping child (Morocco, 2004)
- Selma Baccar's transvergent spectatorship: Flower of oblivion (Tunisia, 2006)
- Coda.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613626431
- 9781280596605
- 1280596600
- 9780253005656
- 0253005655
- OCLC:
- 756501586
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