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Lebanese Cinema - World Cinema

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Informationen zum Autor Lina Khatib is Lecturer in World Cinema, Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of 'Filming the Modern Middle East' (I.B. Tauris 2006). Klappentext Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 1975 have been about this war. Lina Khatib takes 1975 Beirut as her starting point, and takes us right through to today for this, the first major book on Lebanese cinema and its links with politics and national identity.She examines how Lebanon is imagined in such films as Jocelyn Saab's "Once Upon a Time, Beirut", Ghassan Salhab's "Terra Incognita", and Ziad Doueiri's "West Beirut". In so doing, she re-examines the importance of cinema to the national imagination. Also, and using interviews with the current generation of Lebanese filmmakers, she uncovers how in the Lebanese context cinema can both construct and communicate a national identity and thereby opens up new perspectives on the socio-political role of cinema in the Arab world.Deals with Lebanese cinema and its links with politics and national identity. This book examines how Lebanon is imagined in such films as Jocelyn Saab's "Once Upon a Time, Beirut", Ghassan Salhab's "Terra Incognita", and Ziad Doueiri's "West Beirut". Zusammenfassung Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 1975 have been about this war. Lina Khatib takes 1975 Beirut as her starting point, and takes us right through to today for this, the first major book on Lebanese cinema and its links with politics and national identity.She examines how Lebanon is imagined in such films as Jocelyn Saab's "Once Upon a Time, Beirut", Ghassan Salhab's "Terra Incognita", and Ziad Doueiri's "West Beirut". In so doing, she re-examines the importance of cinema to the national imagination. Also, and using interviews with the current generation of Lebanese filmmakers, she uncovers how in the Lebanese context cinema can both construct and communicate a national identity and thereby opens up new perspectives on the socio-political role of cinema in the Arab world. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTSIntroduction: On Lebanese Cinema and National Identity1 The Lebanese Cinema Industry in Context2 Religion, Conflict and the Other Within3 War as a Masculine Arena4 Women, the Body and the City5 The Politics of Place, Exile and Belonging6 History and the Avoidance of HistoryEpilogue: Imagining the NationNotesBibliographyFilmographyIndex...

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Authors Lina Khatib
Assisted by Lúcia Nagib (Editor), Julian Ross (Editor)
Publisher Tauris, I.B.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.08.2008
 
EAN 9781845116286
ISBN 978-1-84511-628-6
No. of pages 224
Dimensions 158 mm x 234 mm x 18 mm
Series Tauris World Cinema Series
Tauris World Cinema (Paperback
Tauris World Cinema Series
Tauris World Cinema (Paperback
World Cinema
Subject Humanities, art, music > Art

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