Overview
- Brings together essays by academic experts in the field alongside essays by Arab filmmakers with scholarly backgrounds
- Employs a range of philosophical and critical theories and methodologies in order to shed light on contemporary conditions of cinematic production and reception in the Arab world and to emphasize the importance of earlier, neglected work
- Edited by two of the leading scholars of Arab Cinema today
Part of the book series: Global Cinema (GLOBALCINE)
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This volume engages new films and modes of scholarly research in Arab cinema, and older, often neglected films and critical topics, while theorizing their structural relationship to contemporary developments in the Arab world. The volume considers the relationship of Arab cinema to transnational film production, distribution, and exhibition, in turn recontextualizing the works of acknowledged as well as new directorial figures, and country-specific phenomena. New documentary and experimental practices are referenced and critiqued, while commercial cinema is covered both as an industrial product and as one of several instances of contestation. The volume thus showcases the breadth and depth of Arab film culture and its multilayered connections to local conditions, regional affiliations, and the tendencies and aesthetics of global cinema.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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History, Positionality, Critique
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From Resistance to Entrenchment and Back Again
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Political Aesthetics of State and Revolution in Egypt
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Reviews
“One of the many merits of this volume is that it approaches cinema in its sociohistorical dimension, thus shedding as much light on the circumstances (social, historical, economic, etc.) under which films are produced and consumed as on the films themselves. … The contributions in this collection present a series of possibilities and case studies in how to approach a field that remains both understudied and oversimplified … .” (Giovanni Vimercati, Film Quarterly, Winter, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Terri Ginsberg is Assistant Professor of Film at The American University in Cairo, Egypt. She is co-author of Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema; author of Visualizing the Palestinian Struggle and Holocaust Film: The Political Aesthetics of Ideology; and co-editor of Perspectives on German Cinema and A Companion to German Cinema.
Chris Lippard is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Film and Media Arts at the University of Utah, USA. He is co-author of the Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema and has recently published articles on contemporary Iranian cinema and on Anthony Mann’s Devil’s Doorway.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cinema of the Arab World
Book Subtitle: Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice
Editors: Terri Ginsberg, Chris Lippard
Series Title: Global Cinema
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30081-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30080-7Published: 04 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30083-8Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-30081-4Published: 03 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-5951
Series E-ISSN: 2634-596X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 422
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Global Cinema and TV, Middle Eastern Culture, Media and Communication, Film and TV Production, Film Theory