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Afghanistan in the Cinema

Author : Mark Graham
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252035275
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan in the Cinema written by Mark Graham and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely critical introduction to the representation of Afghanistan in film, Mark Graham examines the often surprising combination of propaganda and poetry in films made in Hollywood and the East. Through the lenses of postcolonial theory and historical reassessment, Graham analyzes what these films say about Afghanistan, Islam, and the West and argues that they are integral tools for forming discourse on Afghanistan, a means for understanding and avoiding past mistakes, and symbols of the country's shaky but promising future. Thoughtfully addressing many of the misperceptions about Afghanistan perpetuated in the West, Afghanistan in the Cinema incorporates incisive analysis of the market factors, funding sources, and political agendas that have shaped the films. The book considers a range of films, beginning with the 1970s epics The Man Who Would Become King and The Horsemen and following the shifts in representation of the Muslim world during the Russian War in films such as The Beast and Rambo III. Graham then moves on to Taliban-era films such as Kandahar, Osama, and Ellipsis, the first Afghan film directed by a woman. Lastly, the book discusses imperialist nostalgia in films such as Charlie Wilson's War and destabilizing visions represented in contemporary works such as The Kite Runner.

Afghanistan in the Cinema

Author : Mark Graham
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091396
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan in the Cinema written by Mark Graham and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely critical introduction to the representation of Afghanistan in film, Mark Graham examines the often surprising combination of propaganda and poetry in films made in Hollywood and the East. Through the lenses of postcolonial theory and historical reassessment, Graham analyzes what these films say about Afghanistan, Islam, and the West and argues that they are integral tools for forming discourse on Afghanistan, a means for understanding and avoiding past mistakes, and symbols of the country's shaky but promising future. Thoughtfully addressing many of the misperceptions about Afghanistan perpetuated in the West, Afghanistan in the Cinema incorporates incisive analysis of the market factors, funding sources, and political agendas that have shaped the films. The book considers a range of films, beginning with the 1970s epics The Man Who Would Become King and The Horsemen and following the shifts in representation of the Muslim world during the Russian War in films such as The Beast and Rambo III. Graham then moves on to Taliban-era films such as Kandahar, Osama, and Ellipsis, the first Afghan film directed by a woman. Lastly, the book discusses imperialist nostalgia in films such as Charlie Wilson's War and destabilizing visions represented in contemporary works such as The Kite Runner.

Non-Cinema

Author : William Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501327275
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Non-Cinema written by William Brown and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-Cinema: Global Digital Film-making and the Multitude provides an original film-philosophy through which to understand low budget digital filmmaking from around the globe. It draws upon a wide range of western and non-western philosophers, physicists, theorists of 'Third Cinema,' and contemporary film theorists and film-philosophers in order to argue that the future of cinema lies at the margins, in the extreme, the overlooked and the under-funded – the sort that distributors, exhibitors and audiences would not consider to be cinema at all, hence "non-cinema." Analysing numerous films, William Brown argues that contemporary low-budget digital cinema is also through its digital form a political cinema that suggests that we are not detached observers of the world, but entangled participants therewith. Non-Cinema constructs this argument by looking at work by established filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard, Abbas Kiarostami, Jafar Panahi and Michael Winterbottom, as well as lesser known work from places as diverse as Asia, the Middle East, Europe, the Americas and Africa.

Cinematic perspectives on international law

Author : Olivier Corten
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526149907
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Cinematic perspectives on international law written by Olivier Corten and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposed volume consists of an edited collection within the new Melland Schill Guidebooks on International Law (MSGIL) series. In line with the MSGIL objective of inclusiveness, originality, perspectivism and critical thought, the book is the first of an intended series pertaining to perspectives related to the ways in which the arts influence the perception and attitude of the public towards international law, and the manner this affects the discipline, both in terms of its own development and in terms of its social legitimacy. The book contrasts the narratives of international law depicted in cinema and TV productions with the corresponding narratives advanced by legal scholars. It identifies a cognitive dissonance between them and ascertains its implications on general perceptions of international law.

A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4

Author : Hamid Naficy
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822348780
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4 written by Hamid Naficy and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourth and final volume of A History of Iranian Cinema, Hamid Naficy looks at the extraordinary efflorescence in Iranian film and other visual media since the Islamic Revolution.

Globalizing Afghanistan

Author : Zubeda Jalalzai
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822350149
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Globalizing Afghanistan written by Zubeda Jalalzai and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVInternational scholars, activists, and aid workers address Afghanistan and the current phase of the U.S.-led War on Terror and place Afghanistan within global networks of power and influence, highlighting that nation's role in long term issues of nation-b/div

Afghanistan and the Cinema: The Politics of Representation

Author : Mark Graham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781109166811
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan and the Cinema: The Politics of Representation written by Mark Graham and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the fall of 2001, Afghanistan has been the subject of a number of narratives, including bestselling novels and memoirs as well as narrative films and documentaries. This dissertation examines the intersection of aesthetics and politics in cinematic representations of Afghanistan generated from within the Western world and elsewhere.

Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema

Author : Terri Ginsberg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538139057
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema written by Terri Ginsberg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To a substantial degree cinema has served to define the perceived character of the peoples and nations of the Middle East. This book covers the production and exhibition of the cinema of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabi, Yemen, Kuwait, and Bahrain, as well as the non-Arab states of Turkey and Iran, and the Jewish state of Israel. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on individual films, filmmakers, actors, significant historical figures, events, and concepts, and the countries themselves. It also covers the range of cinematic modes from documentary to fiction, representational to animation, generic to experimental, mainstream to avant-garde, and entertainment to propaganda. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Middle Eastern cinema.

War Cinema

Author : Guy Westwell
Publisher : Wallflower Press
ISBN 13 : 9781904764540
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book War Cinema written by Guy Westwell and published by Wallflower Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'War Cinema' presents an introduction to and overview of films that take war as their main theme. Framing the era with 'Apocalypse Now' and 'Apocalypse Now Redux', the author initially focuses on Vietnam on film in the 1970s and 1980s and how this divisive war was represented.

Afghanistan: History, Diplomacy and Journalism Volume 1

Author : Dr. M. Halim Tanwir
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1479760927
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan: History, Diplomacy and Journalism Volume 1 written by Dr. M. Halim Tanwir and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-22 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book (Afghanitan: History, Diplomacy and Journalism) you are studying is a summary of my research and work through the continuous years. My aim was to research about the occupation of Afghanistan by Great Britain, Russia and America in the recent centuries & resistance & defeat of Afghan nation journalism and factional publications in Afghanistan and to make research and analysis by using cultural and journalistic method about the historical occurrences from the rise of press up to the contemporary period (twenty first century) to author and publish it. In reality, this book covers the cultural possession of Afghanistan from the end of 19 century 1878/`1257 up to the 2014, America and NATO forces withdraw from Afghanistan.

Cinema in Muslim Societies

Author : Ali Nobil Ahmad
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317389611
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Cinema in Muslim Societies written by Ali Nobil Ahmad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book collates a comprehensive range of fascinating essays by leading authors on film from across the Muslim world. Responding to political and theoretical misconceptions about Islam and Muslim culture, it covers North African, Arab and Asian cinemas in a rich series of industry histories, single film studies and detailed analyses of celebrated directors. Cinema in Muslim Societies is innovative and timely in its explicit engagement with vexing questions of Islamic aesthetics, political activism, socialism and the role of women in Muslim contexts. The authors explore a wide variety of topics, from cinematic art and poetry to religious identity and pornography. Debated extensively at a programme of public talks and screenings at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 2011, this volume remains supremely relevant in a world of polarising identities and political violence engulfing Muslim societies and the West. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third Text.

American War Cinema and Media since Vietnam

Author : Patricia Keeton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137277890
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book American War Cinema and Media since Vietnam written by Patricia Keeton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other cinematic genre more sharply illustrates the contradictions of American society - notions about social class, politics, and socio-economic ideology - than the war film. This book examines the latest cycle of war films to reveal how they mediate and negotiate the complexities of war, class, and a military-political mission largely gone bad.

Imagining Afghanistan

Author : Alla Ivanchikova
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 161249580X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Afghanistan written by Alla Ivanchikova and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining Afghanistan examines how Afghanistan has been imagined in literary and visual texts that were published after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent U.S.-led invasion—the era that propelled Afghanistan into the center of global media visibility. Through an analysis of fiction, graphic novels, memoirs, drama, and film, the book demonstrates that writing and screening “Afghanistan” has become a conduit for understanding our shared post-9/11 condition. “Afghanistan” serves as a lens through which contemporary cultural producers contend with the moral ambiguities of twenty-first-century humanitarianism, interpret the legacy of the Cold War, debate the role of the U.S. in the rise of transnational terror, and grapple with the long-term impact of war on both human and nonhuman ecologies. Post-9/11 global Afghanistan literary production remains largely NATO-centric insofar as it is marked by an uncritical investment in humanitarianism as an approach to Third World suffering and in anti-communism as an unquestioned premise. The book’s first half exposes how persisting anti-socialist biases—including anti-statist bias—not only shaped recent literary and visual texts on Afghanistan, resulting in a distorted portrayal of its tragic history, but also informed these texts’ reception by critics. In the book’s second half, the author examines cultural texts that challenge this limited horizon and forge alternative ways of representing traumatic histories. Captured by the author through the concepts of deep time, nonhuman witness, and war as a multispecies ecology, these new aesthetics bring readers a sophisticated portrait of Afghanistan as a rich multispecies habitat affected in dramatic ways by decades of war but not annihilated.

The Plays and Films of Bahram Beyzaie

Author : Saeed Talajooy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755652703
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book The Plays and Films of Bahram Beyzaie written by Saeed Talajooy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bahram Beyzaie is one of Iran's leading playwrights and auteur filmmakers. This book examines several of Beyzaie's films and plays and their preoccupation with the modalities and transformations of Iranian contemporary, historical and mythical identity from different perspectives. The chapters analyse Beyzaie's influential plays such as Arash and So Dies Pahlevan Akbar and his filmic magnum opuses such as The Crow, Bashu, the Little Stranger and Killing Mad Dogs from a range of critical perspectives including ecofeminist, sociopolitical, new-historicist, archetypal and psychoanalytical readings. They also explore Beyzaie's dialogue with filmic genres such as noir, different Iranian languages such as Gilaki, Iranian epics and ritual practices such as ta'ziyeh plays and javanmardi chivalry cults. Together, the chapters show how Beyzaie's works negotiate narratives of belonging and undermine the dominant exclusionist discourses in Iran, and how they use the resources of Iranian folk and performance traditions to comment on the position of women, children, intellectuals, and minorities in society.

Gender and Patriarchy in the Films of Muslim Nations

Author : Patricia R. Owen
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476628602
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Gender and Patriarchy in the Films of Muslim Nations written by Patricia R. Owen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are 49 Muslim-majority countries in the world and Islam is the world’s second largest religion. Yet many in the West are misinformed about Islam and Muslim worldviews. Issues related to gender norms are especially subject to misconceptions. This filmography analyzes gender issues in 56 feature films from Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Turkey, with a focus on religious, legal and patriarchal legitimization of practices such as female genital mutilation, child marriage, virginity testing, public sexual harassment and molestation, and honor killings.

The Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Film Daily Year Book of Motion Pictures written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Film, History and Cultural Citizenship

Author : Tina Mai Chen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135762074
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Film, History and Cultural Citizenship written by Tina Mai Chen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new book investigates the relationship of film to history, power, memory, and cultural citizenship. The book is concerned with two central issues: firstly, the participation of film and filmmakers in articulating and challenging projects of modernity; and, secondly, the role of film in shaping particular understandings of self and other to evoke collective notions of belonging. These issues call for interdisciplinary and multi-layered analyses that are ideally met through dialogue across place, time, identities and genres. The contributors to this volume enable this dialogue by considering the ways in which cultural expression and identity expressed through film serve to create notions of belonging, group identity, and entitlement within modern societies.