Representations of Palestine in Egyptian Cinema: Politics of (In)visibility

Author:   Terri Ginsberg ,  Chris Lippard ,  Claire Begbie
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   1
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9781433188404


Pages:   122
Publication Date:   30 August 2023
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Representations of Palestine in Egyptian Cinema: Politics of (In)visibility traces how Egyptian cinema has represented Palestine across three paradigmatic moments in modern Egyptian history: in the years around the 1952 Revolution, which saw Egypt’s transition from monarchy to republic; in the wake of the 1967 Defeat, which signaled the end of Nasser’s pan-Arabist project; and around the turn of the twenty-first century, at which point Egypt had not only normalized relations with Israel but integrated into the neoliberal capitalist economy. Integrating textual analysis with politico-historical contextualization, the book investigates Egypt’s popular commitment and changing foreign policy toward the Palestinian issue, arguing that varied allegorical figurations of Palestine in Egyptian cinema appear as critical reactions to the political status quo. To this end, the book’s chapters analyze, respectively, generic conventions of melodrama, social realism, and transnational cinema, all in relation to their conditions of production—commercial, state-sponsored, and transnationally funded. The book offers a critical reconsideration of an important but largely neglected body of films on a struggle which persists until today.

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Author:   Terri Ginsberg ,  Chris Lippard ,  Claire Begbie
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.279kg
ISBN:  

9781433188404


ISBN 10:   1433188406
Pages:   122
Publication Date:   30 August 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures – Preface – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Introduction – The Emergence of Palestine in the Egyptian Melodrama – Resisting the Limits of Egyptian Cinema: Pan-Arab Representation of Palestine – Egyptian Cinema in a Transnational Context: Neoliberalism and Palestine Solidarity Cinema – Conclusion – Filmography – Bibliography – Index.

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Claire Begbie is a Ph.D. student in Film and Moving Image Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. Her research interests include Palestine in Arab and transnational cinema, transnational approaches to film and media, and cultural histories of the Cold War era. She was recently Visiting Instructor in the Department of Rhetoric and Composition at The American University in Cairo, where she earned an M.A. in Middle East Studies.

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