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Cinema of the Arab World

Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice

Chris Lippard editor Terri Ginsberg editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG

Published:4th Mar '20

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This volume engages new films and modes of scholarly research in Arab cinema, and older, often neglected films and critical topics, while theorizing their structural relationship to contemporary developments in the Arab world. The volume considers the relationship of Arab cinema to transnational film production, distribution, and exhibition, in turn recontextualizing the works of acknowledged as well as new directorial figures, and country-specific phenomena. New documentary and experimental practices are referenced and critiqued, while commercial cinema is covered both as an industrial product and as one of several instances of contestation. The volume thus showcases the breadth and depth of Arab film culture and its multilayered connections to local conditions, regional affiliations, and the tendencies and aesthetics of global cinema.

“One of the many merits of this volume is that it approaches cinema in its sociohistorical dimension, thus shedding as much light on the circumstances (social, historical, economic, etc.) under which films are produced and consumed as on the films themselves. … The contributions in this collection present a series of possibilities and case studies in how to approach a field that remains both understudied and oversimplified … .” (Giovanni Vimercati, Film Quarterly, Winter, 2020)

ISBN: 9783030300807

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422 pages

1st ed. 2020