North African Cinema in a Global Context - Through the Lens of Diaspora

Informationen zum Autor Andrea Khalil is a professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College! CUNY and of French and Francophone Studies at the Graduate Center! CUNY. She is the author of The Arab Avant-Garde: Experiments in North African Art and Literature. Klappentext Provides insight into contemporary film production from North African countries referred to as the Maghreb. This book includes analyses of individual films which tackle among other things the taboo subjects of sexual and substance abuse! the lives of street children! and prostitution. Zusammenfassung Provides insight into contemporary film production from North African countries referred to as the Maghreb. This book includes analyses of individual films which tackle among other things the taboo subjects of sexual and substance abuse, the lives of street children, and prostitution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction! Andrea KhalilKevin Dwyer. "Moroccan Cinema and the Promotion of Culture"! Anthropology! American University in CairoBrian T. Edwards. "Marok in Morocco: Reading Moroccan Films in the Age of Circulation"! English and Comparative Literature! Northwestern University.Robert Lang. "Sexual Allegories of National Identity in Nouri Bouzid's Bezness (1992)"! Cinema! University of Hartford. Andrea Khalil. "The Myth of Masculinity in the Films of Merzak Allouache"! Comparative Literature! Queens College! City University of New York.Hakim Abderrezak. "The Modern Harem in Moknèche's Le Harem de Mme Osmane and Viva Laldgérie". French and Francophone Studies! University of Minnesota.Josef Gugler. "Ali Zaoua: The harsh Life of Street Children and the Poetics of Childhood". Sociology! University of Connectitut.

Product details

• Authors: Andrea Khalil, Andrea (Cuny Khalil, Khalil Andrea
• Assisted by: Andrea Khalil (Editor), Andrea (Cuny Khalil (Editor), Khalil Andrea (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.2008
• EAN: 9780415460323
• ISBN: 978-0-415-46032-3
• No. of pages: 108
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; History, Media Studies, Business & Economics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Africa, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Foreign Exchange, Films, cinema, Humanities, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies