Cinema in Muslim Societies

ISBN-13: 9781138106703 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 164 str.

Ali Nobil Ahmad

Opis

This book collates a comprehensive range of essays on film from across the Muslim world, exploring a wide variety of topics from cinematic art and poetry to religious identity and pornography. 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. It 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. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third Text.

O autorze

Ali Nobil Ahmad is a Fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, Germany, and Assistant Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. He is a former editorial board member of the journal Third Text. In 2011, he co-curated Winds of Change, a programme of film screenings and talks about cinema and the Arab Spring at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, UK.