Ten Arab Filmmakers: Political Dissent and Social Critique

Author:   Josef Gugler ,  Christa Salamandra ,  Jonathan Smolin ,  Dalia Said Mostafa
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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Pages:   264
Publication Date:   29 June 2015
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Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled here represent principal national cinemas of the Arab world-Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Syria. Although they have produced many of the region's most-renowned films and gained recognition at major international festivals, with few exceptions these filmmakers have received little critical attention. All ten share a concern with giving image and voice to people struggling against authoritarian regimes, patriarchal traditions, or religious fundamentalism-theirs is a cinema engage. The featured directors are Daoud Abd El-Sayed, Merzak Allouache, Nabil Ayouch, Youssef Chahine, Mohamed Chouikh, Michel Khleifi, Nabil Maleh, Yousry Nasrallah, Jocelyne Saab, and Elia Suleiman.

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Author:   Josef Gugler ,  Christa Salamandra ,  Jonathan Smolin ,  Dalia Said Mostafa
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780253016447


ISBN 10:   0253016444
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   29 June 2015
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Auteur Directors, Political Dissent, and Social Critique Josef Gugler 1. Nabil Maleh: Syria's Leopard (Syria) Christa Salamandra 2. Jocelyne Saab: A Lifetime Journey in Search of Freedom and Beauty (Lebanon) Dalia Said Mostafa 3. Michel Khleifi: Filmmaker of Memory (Palestine) Tim Kennedy 4. Elia Suleiman: Narrating Negative Space (Palestine) Refqa Abu-Remaileh 5. Youssef Chahine: Devouring Mimicries or Juggling with Self and Other (Egypt) Viola Shafik 6. Daoud Abd El-Sayed: Parody and Borderline Existence (Egypt) Viola Shafik 7. Yousry Nasrallah: The Pursuit of Autonomy in the Arab and European Film Markets (Egypt) Benjamin Geer 8. Mohamed Chouikh: From Anti-colonial Commemoration to a Cinema of Contestation (Algeria) Guy Austin 9. Merzak Allouache: (Self-)Censorship, Social Critique and the Limits of Political Engagement in Contemporary Algerian Cinema (Algeria) Will Higbee 10. Nabil Ayouch: Transgression, Identity, and Difference (Morocco) Jonathan Smolin Film Index Name Index

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[A] welcome addition to the scholarship on Arab film... [I]ncludes a rich and well selected mix of important directors from across the region [and offers] an authoritative and comprehensive accounting of each director's biography, his or her important works, and the political, social, and cultural contexts in which she or he has worked. Clearly written and accessible, Ten Arab Filmmakers will be a welcome addition to university courses on Arab cinema. It will inform students' viewings of these filmmakers' works and facilitate their understanding of the contexts from which they emerged and in which they circulate. -Nadia Yaqub, University of North Carolina This volume offers perceptive essays on ten filmmakers from the Arab world, covering a wide span of countries and representing older as well as younger generations. Free of academic jargon and notable for their general accessibility, the essays, by authors from a variety of disciplines, provide biographies of the directors, characterize their dominant interests, themes, and aesthetic concerns, and closely examine individual films. The collection greatly enriches our understanding of the strains and tensions within individual countries and across the region, helping us appreciate the complexity of the region's filmmaking context and the region's immense cultural vitality. -Kevin Dwyer, author of Beyond Casablanca: M. A. Tazi and the Adventure of Moroccan Cinema Illustrated with arresting stills and superbly edited, this volume is sharp, incisive, and thought provoking... Essential. -Choice


[A] welcome addition to the scholarship on Arab film... [I]ncludes a rich and well selected mix of important directors from across the region [and offers] an authoritative and comprehensive accounting of each director's biography, his or her important works, and the political, social, and cultural contexts in which she or he has worked. Clearly written and accessible, Ten Arab Filmmakers will be a welcome addition to university courses on Arab cinema. It will inform students' viewings of these filmmakers' works and facilitate their understanding of the contexts from which they emerged and in which they circulate. -Nadia Yaqub, University of North Carolina This volume offers perceptive essays on ten filmmakers from the Arab world, covering a wide span of countries and representing older as well as younger generations. Free of academic jargon and notable for their general accessibility, the essays, by authors from a variety of disciplines, provide biographies of the directors, characterize their dominant interests, themes, and aesthetic concerns, and closely examine individual films. The collection greatly enriches our understanding of the strains and tensions within individual countries and across the region, helping us appreciate the complexity of the region's filmmaking context and the region's immense cultural vitality. -Kevin Dwyer, author of Beyond Casablanca: M. A. Tazi and the Adventure of Moroccan Cinema Illustrated with arresting stills and superbly edited, this volume is sharp, incisive, and thought provoking... Essential. -Choice Ten Arab Filmmakers represents a timely and important resource for educators, scholars, and students. -Studies in Eastern European Cinema Ten Arab Filmmakers contributes in a positive, meaningful way to the general advancement of MENA studies in American institutions of higher education, encouraging students and the general public to learn about the Arab world from diverse perspectives. -Journal of North African Studies


Illustrated with arresting stills and superbly edited, this volume is sharp, incisive, and thought provoking. . . . Essential. * Choice * Ten Arab Filmmakers contributes in a positive, meaningful way to the general advancement of MENA studies in American institutions of higher education, encouraging students and the general public to learn about the Arab world from diverse perspectives. * Journal of North African Studies * Ten Arab Filmmakers represents a timely and important resource for educators, scholars, and students. * Studies in Eastern European Cinema * Gugler has done an admirable job taking the reader on a complex but passionate journey through the work of ten Arab fi lmmakers. * Black Camera *


[A] welcome addition to the scholarship on Arab film... [I]ncludes a rich and well selected mix of important directors from across the region [and offers] an authoritative and comprehensive accounting of each director's biography, his or her important works, and the political, social, and cultural contexts in which she or he has worked. Clearly written and accessible, Ten Arab Filmmakers will be a welcome addition to university courses on Arab cinema. It will inform students' viewings of these filmmakers' works and facilitate their understanding of the contexts from which they emerged and in which they circulate. -Nadia Yaqub, University of North Carolina This volume offers perceptive essays on ten filmmakers from the Arab world, covering a wide span of countries and representing older as well as younger generations. Free of academic jargon and notable for their general accessibility, the essays, by authors from a variety of disciplines, provide biographies of the directors, characterize their dominant interests, themes, and aesthetic concerns, and closely examine individual films. The collection greatly enriches our understanding of the strains and tensions within individual countries and across the region, helping us appreciate the complexity of the region's filmmaking context and the region's immense cultural vitality. -Kevin Dwyer, author of Beyond Casablanca: M. A. Tazi and the Adventure of Moroccan Cinema


Author Information

Josef Gugler is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent (IUP, 2003) and editor of Film in the Middle East and North Africa: Creative Dissidence.

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