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Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi

Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi

Limbrick, Peter

Hardcover

African HistoryFilm StudiesGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 0520330560
ISBN13: 9780520330566
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Mar 10 2020
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Arab Modernism as World Cinema explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, demonstrating the importance of Moroccan and Arab film cultures in histories of world cinema. Addressing the legacy of the Nahda or Arab Renaissance of the nineteenth and early twentieth century--when Arab writers and artists reenergized Arab culture by engaging with other languages and societies--Peter Limbrick argues that Smihi's films take up the spirit of the Nahda for a new age. Examining Smihi's oeuvre, which enacts an exchange of images and ideas between Arab and non-Arab cultures, Limbrick rethinks the relation of Arab cinema to modernism and further engages debates about the use of modernist forms by filmmakers in the Global South. This original study offers new routes for thinking about world cinema and modernism in the Middle East and North Africa, and about Arab cinema in the world.

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