New Approaches to Islam in Film

ISBN-13: 9780815393221 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 226 str.

Kristian Petersen

Opis

This book, from an international panel of contributors, significantly expands the boundaries of discussion around Muslims in film, asking new questions of the archive and magnifying analyses of particular cultural productions.

Spis treści

1 Reframing the Study of Muslims and Islam in Film-Kristian Petersen; Part 1 New Sources; 2 Race, Torture Porn, and the Menacing Black Muslimness of Five Fingers-Mika'il A. Petin; 3 Muhammad as a Synthesis of Meditation and Action: A 1932 Screenplay by Nikos Kazantzakis-Panayiota Mini; 4 Being a (Muslim) Worker in the Egyptian Film Industry-Chihab El Khachab; Part 2 New Communities; 5 Puerto Rican Muslims in Post-9/11 Documentaries: Authenticity, Cultural Identity and Communal Belonging-Yamil Avivi; 6 Performing Identities: Intersections of Muslim Sexuality, Gender, and Race in Touch of Pink and Shades of Ray-Aman Agah; Part 3 New Perspectives; 7 "Oh, What if We Call Him Allah?" Ambiguous Orientalism in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Crusades-David Blanke; 8 Mystics in the Movies: Sufism in Global Cinema-Emily O'Dell; 9 Depicting the Prophet without Showing Him-Bilal Yorulmaz; Part 4 New Directions; 10 "I Can Take Your Eyes": Re-Envisioning Religion and Gender in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night-Megan Goodwin; 11 Negotiating Borders, Gender, and Identity: A Transnational Feminist Study of an Iranian Documentary-Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi; 12 Film as a Scene of ‘Rupture’: Religion, Gender and Rights in Muslim Communities-Milja Radovic; Part 5 New Understandings of Conflict; 13 Islam, Gender, and Extremist Violence in Contemporary Egyptian Cinema-Clarissa Burt; 14 Citizenship, Ethnicity, and Religion: Muslim Immigrants in German Cinematic Arts-Anna Akasoy; 15 Together in the Midst of War: Muslim and Christian Coexistence in Lebanese Cinema-Sérgio Dias Branco

O autorze

Kristian Petersen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Old Dominion University, USA.