Cinema in Muslim Societies

Informationen zum Autor Ali Nobil Ahmad is a Fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin! Germany! and Assistant Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences! Pakistan. He is a former editorial board member of the journal Third Text. In 2011! he co-curated Winds of Change! a programme of film screenings and talks about cinema and the Arab Spring at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London! UK. Zusammenfassung This book collates a comprehensive range of fascinating essays by leading authors on film from across the Muslim world. Responding to political and theoretical misconceptions about Islam and Muslim culture! it covers North African! Arab and Asian cinemas in a rich series of industry histories! single film studies and detailed analyses of celebrated directors. Cinema in Muslim Societies is innovative and timely in its explicit engagement with vexing questions of Islamic aesthetics! political activism! socialism and the role of women in Muslim contexts.The authors explore a wide variety of topics! from cinematic art and poetry to religious identity and pornography. Debated extensively at a programme of public talks and screenings at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 2011! this volume remains supremely relevant in a world of polarising identities and political violence engulfing Muslim societies and the West.This book was originally published as a special issue of Third Text. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Iftikhar DadiPreface Ali Nobil Ahmad1. Introduction: Is There a Muslim World? Ali Nobil Ahmad2. Paradise Delayed: With Hany Abu-Assad in Palestine Hamid Dabashi3. Two Theses on the Afghan Woman: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf Filming Agheleh Farahmand Haim Bresheeth4. From Resistance and Bearing Witness to the Power of the Fantastical: Icons and Symbols in Palestinian Poetry and Cinema Rasha Salti5. Between Socialism and Sufism: Islam in the Films of Ousmane Sembène and Djibril Diop Mambéty David Murphy6. The Poetic Vision of Nacer Khemir Roy Armes7. 'Framed Patterns of Infinity': Takva! a Mortal Individual's Fight for Becoming-Imperceptible Serazer Pekerman8. Women in Turkish Cinema: Their Presence and Absence as Images and as Image-Makers Gönül Dönmez-Colin9. Innovation and Tradition in Indonesian Cinema David Hanan10. I am Crazy about the Lord: The Muslim Devotional Genre in Hindi Film Rachel Dwyer11. Cut-Pieces as Stag Film: Bangladeshi Pornography in Action Cinema Lotte Hoek12. From Zinda Laash to Zibahkhana: Violence and Horror in Pakistani Cinema Ali Khan and Ali Nobil Ahmad ...

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• Authors: Ali (Zentrum Moderner Orient Ahmad, Ali Nobil (Zentrum Moderner Orient Ahmad
• Assisted by: Ali Ahmad (Editor), Ali Nobil Ahmad (Editor), Ali Nobil (Zentrum Moderner Orient Ahmad (Editor), Ahmad Ali (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138106703
• ISBN: 978-1-138-10670-3
• No. of pages: 164
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Media Studies, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, Middle East, Films, cinema, Islamic Studies, Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising, Islamic countries, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities