Umfang:
1 online resource (253 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520976122
Serie:
University of California Series in Jewish History and Cultures Series v.1
Inhalt:
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. In this book, Deborah A. Starr recuperates the work of Togo Mizrahi, a pioneer of Egyptian cinema. Mizrahi, an Egyptian Jew with Italian nationality, established himself as a prolific director of popular comedies and musicals in the 1930s and 1940s. As a studio owner and producer, Mizrahi promoted the idea that developing a local cinema industry was a project of national importance. Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema integrates film analysis with film history to tease out the cultural and political implications of Mizrahi's work. His movies, Starr argues, subvert dominant notions of race, gender, and nationality through their playful--and queer--use of masquerade and mistaken identity. Taken together, Mizrahi's films offer a hopeful vision of a pluralist Egypt. By reevaluating Mizrahi's contributions to Egyptian culture, Starr challenges readers to reconsider the debates over who is Egyptian and what constitutes national cinema.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Translation and Transliteration -- 1. Togo Mizrahi, Agent of Exchange -- Preview -- Egyptian Jews: Between Nationality and Nationalisms -- What Is Egyptian Cinema? -- National Cinema without Nationality -- Togo Mizrahi: A Case Study of National Cinema without Nationality -- 2. Togo Mizrahi, Work over Words -- Togo Mizrahi, a Jewish Son of Egypt -- The Making of the "Togo Cinema Family": Alexandria, 1929-1939 -- "The Director Who Does the Egyptian Film Industry Proud": Cairo, 1939-1946 -- From Director to Producer: Cairo, 1944-1946 -- The End of Studio Togo Mizrahi -- Reevaluating Togo Mizrahi's Legacy -- 3. Crimes of Mistaken Identity -- The Subversive Potential of Levantine Farce -- Chalom: A Jewish Ibn al-Balad -- Language of Belonging, Language of Disguise: The Two Delegates (1934) -- Masquerade and the Levantine Carnivalesque: The Neighborhood Watchman (1936) -- Coda: Levantine Masquerade and Subversive Sexuality -- 4. Queering the Levantine -- In Bed Together -- Queerness and the Levantine -- Suitors in Swimsuits: Doctor Farahat (1935) -- A Parting Kiss: Mistreated by Affluence (1937) -- Coda: "The Story of a Woman Who Was Transformed into a Man" -- 5. Journeys of Assumed Identity -- Movement I: Cycling in Alexandria -- Movement II: Nubian Whiteface and Borscht Belt Minstrelsy -- Movement III: Queer Levantine Mobility -- Coda: Journey of the Living Dead -- 6. Traveling Anxieties -- Itinerary I, Egypt-Italy: A Rainy Night (1939) -- Itinerary II, Egypt-Sudan: A Rainy Night (1939) -- Itinerary III, Egypt-Palestine-Lebanon: The Straight Road (1943) -- Coda: Layla Bint al-Balad -- 7. Courtesan and Concubine -- Love Matches and Marriage Plots -- Abolition of Slavery and Legal Prostitution in Egypt.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520366206
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780520366206
Sprache:
Englisch
