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Informationen zum Autor Suzanne Gauch is Associate Professor of English at Temple University. She is the author of Liberating Shahrazad: Feminism, Postcolonialism, and Islam. Klappentext Exploring films made in Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria from 1985 to 2009, Maghrebs in Motion illustrates how late post-independence and early twenty-first century North African cinema prefigured many of the transformations in perception and relation that stunned both participants and onlookers during the remarkable uprisings of the 2011 Arab Spring. Zusammenfassung Exploring films made in Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria from 1985 to 2009, Maghrebs in Motion illustrates how late post-independence and early twenty-first century North African cinema prefigured many of the transformations in perception and relation that stunned both participants and onlookers during the remarkable uprisings of the 2011 Arab Spring. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Note to Readers Introduction: Imperatives of Wonder, or Moving Beyond The Battle of Algiers First Section: Sight Lines Chapter 1: Doubling Back, Moving On: Farida Benlyazid's A Door to the Sky (1988) Chapter 2: Twilight Dawns: Mohamed Chouikh's The Citadel (1989), Youssef (1994), and Ark of the Desert (1997) Chapter 3: Sand Castles: Nacer Khemir's The Wanderers of the Desert (1986), The Lost Neckring of the Dove (1991), and Baba Aziz: The Prince who Contemplated His Soul (2005) Second Section: Hero Complex Chapter 4: For the Record: Nabil Ayouch's Mektoub (1997) Chapter 5: Off Road: Lyes Salem's Masquerades (2008) Chapter 6: Signal Crossings: Nadia El Fani's Bedwin Hacker (2003) Third Section: Scan Backward/Scan Forward Chapter 7: Vacancies: Tariq Teguia's Rome Rather than You (2006) Chapter 8: Hooking Up: Faouzi Bensaïdi's WWW: What a Wonderful World (2006) Chapter 9: Breaking Out: Nejib Belkadhi's VHS Kahloucha (2007) Epilogue Notes Bibliography ...
