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Revolutionary Melodrama - Popular Film and Civic Identity in Nasser's Egypt (Hardcover)
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Revolutionary Melodrama - Popular Film and Civic Identity in Nasser's Egypt (Hardcover)
Series: Chicago Studies on the Middle East
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Revolutionary Melodrama explores intersections between cinema and
politics during the Nasser era, a period in which a military regime
embarked upon the construction of a new civic identity for an
independent Egypt. The way in which filmmakers participated in this
venture provides the focal point, with their cultural production as
the central texts which both shaped and were shaped by an emerging
sense of a new Egypt. With the blessing of a "revolutionary"
regime, filmmakers began to explore issues of social inequity,
colonial and feudal exploitation, changing gender roles, religious
and cultural traditions and, finally, the disappointments of the
revolutionary project itself. No realm of cultural production holds
greater import for the Nasser era than the cinema. Even those who
are active in deconstructing the last vestiges of the Nasserist
state trumpet the Nasser era as a "golden age" of the arts and
media. The faces and voices on big and little screens, many still
alive, some still working, constitute a pantheon who many
Egyptians, young and old alike, feel will never be replaced. The
author approaches his subject as a scholar of the early Nasser
years who has turned his attention to questions of civic identity
and its relationship to art and political symbology. The work is
enriched and informed by extensive interviews with a large circle
of people engaged in the production or analysis of Egyptian cinema
and broadcast, then and now: directors, actors, critics,
historians, scenarists, censors, musicians, writers, politicians,
and government ministers. Egyptian film remains a largely ignored
topic in an ever-growing literature on film and culture. This book
sheds new light on what many consider to be the greatest era of
Egyptian filmmaking, one that remains formative for many engaged in
creating Egyptian films today.
General
Imprint: |
University of Chicago, Middle East Documentation Center
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Chicago Studies on the Middle East |
Release date: |
December 2002 |
First published: |
December 2002 |
Authors: |
Joel Gordon
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Dimensions: |
231 x 152 x 31mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
300 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-9708199-0-1 |
Categories: |
Books >
Arts & Architecture >
Performing arts >
Films, cinema >
Film theory & criticism
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LSN: |
0-9708199-0-0 |
Barcode: |
9780970819901 |
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