Representations of Palestine in Egyptian Cinema: Politics of (In)visibility

ISBN-13: 9781433188404 / Angielski

Terri Ginsberg; Chris Lippard; Claire Begbie

Opis

The book traces how Egyptian cinema has represented Palestine across three paradigmatic moments in modern Egyptian history: the years surrounding the 1952 Revolution; the period of the post-1967 Naksa (setback); and the turn of the twenty-first century.

Spis treści

List of Figures - Preface - Acknowledgments - List of Abbreviations - Introduction - The Emergence of Palestine in the Egyptian Melodrama - Resisting the Limits of Egyptian Cinema: Pan-Arab Representation of Palestine - Egyptian Cinema in a Transnational Context: Neoliberalism and Palestine Solidarity Cinema - Conclusion - Filmography - Bibliography - Index.

O autorze

Claire Begbie is a Ph.D. student in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research interests include Palestine in Arab and transnational cinema, transnational approaches to film and media, and cultural histories of the Cold War era. She was recently Visiting Instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at The American University in Cairo, where she earned an M.A. in Middle East Studies.