Filming the Modern Middle East - Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World

Informationen zum Autor Lina Khatib is Lecturer in World Cinema! Royal Holloway! University of London. She is the author of Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond (I.B.Tauris! 2008) Klappentext Examines Hollywood as the dominant Western interpreter of the Arab World and also views the Arab world in terms of how it perceives itself and others through its films. This book covers films made in the USA! Egypt! Tunisia! Algeria! Morocco! Lebanon! Syria and Palestine! showing how they represent major political issues in the Middle East. Examines Hollywood as the dominant Western interpreter of the Arab World and also views the Arab world in terms of how it perceives itself and others through its films. This book covers films made in the USA, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, showing how they represent major political issues in the Middle East. Zusammenfassung Examines Hollywood as the dominant Western interpreter of the Arab World and also views the Arab world in terms of how it perceives itself and others through its films. This book covers films made in the USA, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, showing how they represent major political issues in the Middle East.

Product details

• Authors: Lina Khatib
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.09.2006
• EAN: 9781845111922
• ISBN: 978-1-84511-192-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Library of Modern Middle East Studies; Library of Modern Middle East Studies; Library of Middle East Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Political science