UID:
almahu_9949870127502882
Format:
1 online resource
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781350163744
Series Statement:
World Cinema
Content:
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 cinema off-screen, to examine the histories, politics, and conditions of distribution, exhibition, and cinema-going in the Arab world. Through broadening the frame of study beyond the screen, the book widens understanding of the cinema, not merely as a collection of films-as-texts, but as a site of cultural and political contestation in the Arab world. Divided into two sections, and guided by interdisciplinary considerations, the contributors examine historical and contemporary issues of Arab cinema in terms of the experience of movie-going and filmmaking. They examine the networks of distribution and exhibition, as well as the contested and multiple meanings that the cinema embodied through diverse historical periods and geographical locations. Part I focuses on new histories of Arab cinema in terms of film production, distribution, exhibition and audience's experiences of cinema-going. Part II deals with more recent issues within scholarship on Arab cinema such as issues of politics, economics, ideologies, as well as issues related to Arab movies' international circulation and screenings at festivals. Together, the chapters enrich our understanding of the cinema in the Arab world, showing how deeply embedded it is within its social, political, and economic contexts..
Note:
A note on transliteration Introduction, Ifdal Elsaket (Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo), Daniel Biltereyst (Ghent University) and Philippe Meers (University of Antwerp) PART I: Arab cinema histories: distribution, exhibition and audiences 1. Egyptian Cinema in Colonial Maghreb: Distribution, Exhibition and Audiences? Morgan Corriou (University of Paris 8 Vincennes -?Saint-Denis) 2. Le Roi du Cinema: Joseph Seibarras and North African Film Exhibition, 1925-1940, Eric Smoodin (University of California, Davis) 3. Play It Again:?Ufa and Hollywood Battle for Ideological Supremacy on Arab Film Screens, 1933-1945, Ross Melnick(University of California, Santa Barbara) 4. How Ramses Theatre's staging of Egypt's "Serious" Theatre Paved the Way for Dramatic Cinema and Serious Film-going, Mohannad Ghawanmeh (University of California, LA) 5. Interfaith Love and competing Visions of "Moral Cinema" in 1952 Cairo, Rahma Bavelaar (University of Amsterdam) 6. Bollywood Film Traffic: Shaping routes for Hindi films in Beyrouth, Cairo and Dubai, 1954-2014, Nemesis Srour (ecole des Hautes etudes en Sciences Sociales - EHESS, Paris) 7. The History of Audiences and Cinemas in Isma'ilia, 1950-1985, Asmaa Gharib (Contemporary Image Collective) 8. Summer of '69: An oral history of cinema-going in Egypt, Ifdal Elsaket (Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo) 9. Film Distribution and Exhibition in Tunisia since 2011: A revival?, Patricia Caille (University of Strasbourg) PART II: Reclaiming Arab cinema: issues of circulation, experience and memory 10. Gatekeepers and Facilitators: Film Distribution Networks for Arab Cinema, Stefanie Van de Peer (Queen Margaret University in Scotland) 11. "Mediterranean Cinema:" Festivals: circulation of films, network of programmers and the (re)invention of a regional category, Anais Farine (Paris III University - Sorbonne Nouvelle) 12. What moves us in moving-image archives? Ethnography about the film-experience in moving-image archives, Ali Atef (University of Chicago) 13. European co-productions in Tunisian contemporary cinema: three case studies, Sabine Salhab (Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne University) 14. "First Film" Debates and Taste in Transnational Mediations of Saudi Arabia's Transitional Public Film Culture, Anne Ciecko (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) 15. Notes Towards a Manifesto: Sociality, Film Culture and States of Discontent, Alia Ayman & Nour El-Safoury (University of New York, and Independent researcher.) 16. The Visual Nation: Reclaiming Egyptianness in Front of the Screen, Iskandar Ahmad Abdalla, (Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies)..
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350163744
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350163744?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
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