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Cinema in the Arab world : new histories, new approaches / edited by Ifdal Elsaket, Daniel Biltereyst and Philippe Meers.

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"Cinema in the Arab world has been the subject of varied and rigorous studies, but most have focused on films as text, providing in-depth analyses of plot, style, ideologies, or examination of the biographies of prominent directors or actors. This innovative new volume shifts the focus on Arab...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Corporate Author: Cinema-Going in the Arab World
Other Authors: Elsaket, Ifdal (Editor), Biltereyst, Daniel (Editor), Meers, Philippe (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.
Series:Tauris world cinema series.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Arab countries > History and criticism > Congresses.
Motion picture industry > Arab countries > History > Congresses.
Motion picture theaters > Arab countries > History > Congresses.
Motion picture theaters.
Motion picture industry.
Motion pictures.
Arab countries.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Ifdal Elsaket, Daniel Biltereyst, and Philippe Meers
  • 1. Misr abroad : Trading Egyptian films in colonial Maghreb / Morgan Corriou
  • 2. "Le Roi du Cinéma" : Joseph Seibarras and North African film exhibition, 1925-45 / Eric Smoodin
  • 3. Access for the Axis : The battle for ideological supremacy on Middle Eastern, North African, and Turkish cinema screens, between 1933 and 1945 / Kajsa Philippa Niehuse and Ross Melnick
  • 4. Egyptian women's empowerment and early cinema-going / Mohannad Ghawanmeh
  • 5. Anti-colonial masculinity, the Catholic Film Center and the screening of religious difference in 1950s Egypt / Rahma Bavelaar
  • 6. Bollywood film traffic : Shaping routes for Hindi films in the Arab world, 1954-2014 / Némésis Srour
  • 7. The business of cinemas in Ismailia with a case study of Ghweba Cinema : an interview with Abbas Ghweba and Tareq Ghweba / Asmaa Gharib
  • 8. Cinema-going in Egypt in the long 1960s : Oral histories of pleasure and leisure / Ifdal Elsaket
  • 9. Film distribution and exhibition in Tunisia since 2011 : Is cinema-going back in style? / Patricia Caillé
  • 10. Gatekeepers or facilitators? MAD Solutions and other film distribution networks for Arab cinema / Stefanie Van de Peer
  • 11. A new online cinema audience? An interview on Aflamuna with Jad Abi Khalil / Anaïs Farine
  • 12. A taste for cinema : Saudi Arabia's mediated transitional public film culture / Anne Ciecko
  • 13. The multifunctional cinema exhibition space at the turn of the century : a dialogue / Nour El Safoury and Jowe Harfouche
  • 14. The visual nation : Film, soft power and Egypt as a community of spectators / Iskandar Abdalla.

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