Arab modernism as world cinema : the films of Moumen Smihi / Peter Limbrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Limbrick, Peter, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smihi, Moumen, 1945-.

Smihi, Moumen.

Motion pictures--Arab countries.

Motion pictures.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Arab countries.

Motion picture producers and directors--Morocco.

Morocco.

Physical Description:

xiii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]

Summary:

"The career of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi (b. 1945) spans nearly fifty years yet, like so many important Arab filmmakers, his films are not well-known in the Anglophone world. Limbrick's book, the first extensive study of his work, places Smihi within the context of Moroccan, Arab, and world cinema, revealing how the filmmaker creates a traffic of images and ideas between Arab and non-Arab cinemas and cultures. In tracing other Arab experiments with modernism, the book considers the historical phenomenon of the Nahda, the "Arab Renaissance" of the nineteenth and early-twentieth century, when Arab writers and artists re-energized Arab culture by engaging with other languages and societies, especially Europe. Showing how Smihi takes up the challenge and the spirit of the Nahda for a new age, Limbrick argues that we can't understand the importance of Arab film to global cinematic modernisms without reference to Smihi's radically beautiful work. Arab Modernism as World Cinema continues the project of rethinking the relation of Arab thought and culture to modernity and provides new routes for understanding cinematic modernism in the Middle East and North Africa as integral to world cinema"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Moumen Smihi, world cinema, Arab modernism

Radical realities

"The voice of the Arabs"

"Kan ya makan . . . :" : Intertextuality and Arab modernism

Religion and modernity

Situating desire.

Notes:

Includes filmography, bibliographical references, and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Limbrick, Peter, 1967- Arab modernism as world cinema.

ISBN:

9780520330566

0520330560

9780520330573

0520330579

OCLC:

1110660369