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Representations of Palestine in Egyptian Cinema: Politics of (In)visibility

Representations of Palestine in Egyptian Cinema: Politics of (In)visibility

Begbie, Claire
Ginsberg, Terri
Lippard, Chris

Hardcover

Series: Cinema and Media Cultures in the Middle East, Book 1

EconomicsFilm & Video ArtFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1433188406
ISBN13: 9781433188404
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Aug 30 2023
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Representations of Palestine in Egyptian Cinema: Politics of (In)visibility traces how Egyptian cinema has represented Palestine across three paradigmatic moments in modern Egyptian history: in the years around the 1952 Revolution, which saw Egypt's transition from monarchy to republic; in the wake of the 1967 Defeat, which signaled the end of Nasser's pan-Arabist project; and around the turn of the twenty-first century, at which point Egypt had not only normalized relations with Israel but integrated into the neoliberal capitalist economy. Integrating textual analysis with politico-historical contextualization, the book investigates Egypt's popular commitment and changing foreign policy toward the Palestinian issue, arguing that varied allegorical figurations of Palestine in Egyptian cinema appear as critical reactions to the political status quo. To this end, the book's chapters analyze, respectively, generic conventions of melodrama, social realism, and transnational cinema, all in relation to their conditions of production--commercial, state-sponsored, and transnationally funded. The book offers a critical reconsideration of an important but largely neglected body of films on a struggle which persists until today.

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