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Popular Egyptian Cinema

Author : Viola Shafik
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9774160533
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Popular Egyptian Cinema written by Viola Shafik and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1930s, through the Nasser and Sadat eras, up to the era of globalization.This is the first comprehensive book on popular Egyptian cinema in English, a milestone at a time when numerous disciplines have shown an increasing interest in popular culture. As this book ably demonstrates, popular cinema is a form of wish-fulfillment that expresses mass audiences' dreams and fears, while symbolically translating and negotiating social realities.In unearthing the largely contradictory meanings conveyed by different films, Popular Egyptian Cinema examines a broad array of themes, from gender relations to feminism, Islamism and popular ideas about sexuality and morality. Focusing on representations of religious and ethnic minorities-primarily Copts, Jews, and Nubians-Shafik draws out issues such as the formation of the Egyptian nation, cinematic stereotyping, and political and social taboos. Shafik also considers pivotal genres, such as melodrama, realism, and action film, in relation to public debates over highbrow and lowbrow culture and in light of local and international film criticism.Popular Egyptian Cinema marks an important contribution to international film studies while offering general readers an engrossing and informative look at some of the most popular films in Egyptian cinema.

Popular Egyptian Cinema

Author : Viola Shafik
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617973750
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Popular Egyptian Cinema written by Viola Shafik and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1930s, through the Nasser and Sadat eras, up to the era of globalization. In unearthing the largely contradictory meanings conveyed by different films, Popular Egyptian Cinema examines a broad array of themes, from gender relations to feminism, Islamism and popular ideas about sexuality and morality. Focusing on representations of religious and ethnic minorities primarily Copts, Jews, and Nubians Shafik draws out issues such as the formation of the Egyptian nation, cinematic stereotyping, and political and social taboos. Shafik also considers pivotal genres, such as melodrama, realism, and action film, in relation to public debates over highbrow and lowbrow culture and in light of local and international film criticism.

Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema

Author : Prof. Deborah A. Starr
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520976126
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema written by Prof. Deborah A. Starr and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. In this book, Deborah A. Starr recuperates the work of Togo Mizrahi, a pioneer of Egyptian cinema. Mizrahi, an Egyptian Jew with Italian nationality, established himself as a prolific director of popular comedies and musicals in the 1930s and 1940s. As a studio owner and producer, Mizrahi promoted the idea that developing a local cinema industry was a project of national importance. Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema integrates film analysis with film history to tease out the cultural and political implications of Mizrahi’s work. His movies, Starr argues, subvert dominant notions of race, gender, and nationality through their playful—and queer—use of masquerade and mistaken identity. Taken together, Mizrahi’s films offer a hopeful vision of a pluralist Egypt. By reevaluating Mizrahi’s contributions to Egyptian culture, Starr challenges readers to reconsider the debates over who is Egyptian and what constitutes national cinema.

Arab Cinema

Author : Viola Shafik
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774160653
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Arab Cinema written by Viola Shafik and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for scholars of film and the contemporary Middle East, this title provides a comprehensive overview of cinema in the Arab world, tracing the industry's development, since colonial times. It analyzes the ambiguous relationship with commercial western cinema, and the effect of Egyptian market dominance in the region.

Classic Egyptian Movies

Author : Sameh Fathy
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774168680
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book Classic Egyptian Movies written by Sameh Fathy and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2018-11-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prolific film industry has flourished on the banks of the Nile since the earliest days of cinema, producing movies that have been hugely popular and immensely influential not only in Egypt but across the Arab world. Concentrating on productions written and produced entirely in Egypt, Sameh Fathy--a film critic with an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of Egyptian cinema--here selects the 101 most important movies to come out of Cairo's famous studios over the last eighty years. From classic comedies like Salam Is Fine to social dramas like The Second Wife, and from literary adaptations like Call of the Curlew to masterpieces of the cinematic art like The Night of Counting the Years, the author introduces us to each film's writers, producers, directors, and stars, and explains the movie's particular historical, cultural, or artistic significance. Illustrated throughout with posters and stills from all the movies covered.

Revolutionary Melodrama

Author : Joel S. Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionary Melodrama written by Joel S. Gordon and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionary Melodrama explores intersections between cinema and politics during the Nasser era, a period in which a military regime embarked upon the construction of a new civic identity for an independent Egypt. The way in which filmmakers participated in this venture provides the focal point, with their cultural production as the central texts which both shaped and were shaped by an emerging sense of a new Egypt. With the blessing of a "revolutionary" regime, filmmakers began to explore issues of social inequity, colonial and feudal exploitation, changing gender roles, religious and cultural traditions and, finally, the disappointments of the revolutionary project itself. No realm of cultural production holds greater import for the Nasser era than the cinema. Even those who are active in deconstructing the last vestiges of the Nasserist state trumpet the Nasser era as a "golden age" of the arts and media. The faces and voices on big and little screens, many still alive, some still working, constitute a pantheon who many Egyptians, young and old alike, feel will never be replaced. The author approaches his subject as a scholar of the early Nasser years who has turned his attention to questions of civic identity and its relationship to art and political symbology. The work is enriched and informed by extensive interviews with a large circle of people engaged in the production or analysis of Egyptian cinema and broadcast, then and now: directors, actors, critics, historians, scenarists, censors, musicians, writers, politicians, and government ministers. Egyptian film remains a largely ignored topic in an ever-growing literature on film and culture. This book sheds new light on what many consider to be the greatest era of Egyptian filmmaking, one that remains formative for many engaged in creating Egyptian films today.

An Introduction to the Egyptian Cinema

Author : Mohamed Khan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780902214002
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Egyptian Cinema written by Mohamed Khan and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine's Cinema

Author : Malek Khouri
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774163548
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (635 download)

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Download or read book The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine's Cinema written by Malek Khouri and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the work of Egypts best-known filmmaker

The Egyptian Military in Popular Culture

Author : Dalia Said Mostafa
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137593725
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Egyptian Military in Popular Culture written by Dalia Said Mostafa and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a key question through the lens of popular culture: Why did the Egyptian people opt to elect in June 2014 a new president (Abdel Fattah al-Sisi), who hails from the military establishment, after toppling a previous military dictator (Hosni Mubarak) with the breakout of the 25 January 2011 Revolution? In order to dissect this question, the author considers the complexity of the relationship between the Egyptian people and their national army, and how popular cultural products play a pivotal role in reinforcing or subverting this relationship. The author takes the reader on a ‘journey’ through crucial historical and political events in Egypt whilst focusing on multi-layered representations of the ‘military figure’ (the military leader, the heroic soldier, the freedom fighter, the conscript, the martyred soldier, and the Intelligence officer) in a wide range of popular works in literature, film, song, TV drama series, and graffiti art. Mostafa argues that the realm of popular culture in Egypt serves as the ‘blood veins’ which feed the nation’s perception of its Armed Forces.

Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema

Author : Deborah A. Starr
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520366204
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema written by Deborah A. Starr and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. In this book, Deborah A. Starr recuperates the work of Togo Mizrahi, a pioneer of Egyptian cinema. Mizrahi, an Egyptian Jew with Italian nationality, established himself as a prolific director of popular comedies and musicals in the 1930s and 1940s. As a studio owner and producer, Mizrahi promoted the idea that developing a local cinema industry was a project of national importance. Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema integrates film analysis with film history to tease out the cultural and political implications of Mizrahi’s work. His movies, Starr argues, subvert dominant notions of race, gender, and nationality through their playful—and queer—use of masquerade and mistaken identity. Taken together, Mizrahi’s films offer a hopeful vision of a pluralist Egypt. By reevaluating Mizrahi’s contributions to Egyptian culture, Starr challenges readers to reconsider the debates over who is Egyptian and what constitutes national cinema.

Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory

Author : Robert K. Beshara
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501385100
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory written by Robert K. Beshara and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-04-04 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Robert K. Beshara applies decolonial film theory to an analysis of Youssef Chahine's (1997) Al-Masir (Destiny). Transmodern Cinema and Decolonial Film Theory is the first book on decolonial film theory, which unpacks key concepts in decoloniality and decolonial aesthetics. Decolonial film theory is then applied to Youssef Chahine's (1997) historical drama al-Ma?ir in an effort to juxtapose the Egyptian filmmaker (Chahine) and his decolonial cinema to the Andalusian polymath (Ibn Rushd) and his Islamic philosophy.

Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary

Author : Omar Khalifah
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474410219
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Nasser in the Egyptian Imaginary written by Omar Khalifah and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late President of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-1970), has been represented in many major works of Egyptian literature and film, and continues to have a presence in everyday life and discourse in the country. Omar Khalifah's analysis of these representations focuses on how the historical character of Nasser has emerged in the Egyptian imaginary. He explores the recurrent images of Nasser in literature and film and shows how Nasser constitutes a perfect site for plural interpretations. He argues that Nasser has become a rhetorical device, a figure of speech, a trope that connotes specific images constantly invoked whenever he is mentioned. His study makes a case for literature and art to be seen as alternative archives that question, erase, distort and add to the official history of Nasser.

Popular Culture in the Arab World

Author : Andrew Hammond
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774160547
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Popular Culture in the Arab World written by Andrew Hammond and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores Arab cultural life since World War II. Chapters cover topics such as radio/TV, the press, cinema, music, theatre, popular religion, belly dance, western consumerism, sport and the Arabic language.

Unknown Past

Author : Hanan Hammad
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503629783
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Unknown Past written by Hanan Hammad and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the "Cinderella" of Egyptian cinema—the veneration and rumors that surrounded an unparalleled career, and the gendered questions that unsettled Egyptian society. Layla Murad (1918-1995) was once the highest-paid star in Egypt, and her movies were among the top-grossing in the box office. She starred in 28 films, nearly all now classics in Arab musical cinema. In 1955 she was forced to stop acting—and struggled for decades for a comeback. Today, even decades after her death, public interest in her life continues, and new generations of Egyptians still love her work. Unknown Past recounts Murad's extraordinary life—and the rapid political and sociocultural changes she witnessed. Hanan Hammad writes a story centered on Layla Murad's persona and legacy, and broadly framed around a gendered history of twentieth-century Egypt. Murad was a Jew who converted to Islam in the shadow of the first Arab-Israeli war. Her career blossomed under the Egyptian monarchy and later gave a singing voice to the Free Officers and the 1952 Revolution. The definitive end of her cinematic career came under Nasser on the eve of the 1956 Suez War. Egyptians have long told their national story through interpretations of Murad's life, intertwining the individual and Egyptian state and society to better understand Egyptian identity. As Unknown Past recounts, there's no life better than Murad's to reflect the tumultuous changes experienced over the dramatic decades of the mid-twentieth century.

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.

International Film Musical

Author : Corey K Creekmur
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748654305
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book International Film Musical written by Corey K Creekmur and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique study of the film musical, a global cinema tradition.

Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film

Author : Oliver Leaman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134662521
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film written by Oliver Leaman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique volume illuminates a fascinating area of cinema. Each chapter covers the history and major issues of film within that area, as well as providing bibliographies of the leading films, directors and actors.