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Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women's Cinema

Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women's Cinema

Martin, Florence

Paperback

Series: New Directions in National Cinemas

African HistoryFilm Studies

ISBN10: 0253223415
ISBN13: 9780253223418
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: Oct 13 2011
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various meanings of the Arabic term hijab (veil, curtain, screen). Martin analyzes these films on their own theoretical terms, developing the notion of transvergence to examine how Maghrebi women's cinema is flexible, playful, and transgressive in its themes, aesthetics, narratives, and modes of address. These are distinctive films that traverse multiple cultures, both borrowing from and resisting the discourses these cultures propose.

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