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Cinematic Cairo

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Author : Nezar AlSayyad
language : en
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2022-10-11

Cinematic Cairo written by Nezar AlSayyad and has been published by American University in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-11 with Performing Arts categories.

A history of urban modernity in Cairo through cinema which"makes us see makes us see the movies in a whole new way" (Chris Berry, King’s College London) The relationship between the city and cinema is formidable. The images and sounds of the city found in movies are perhaps the only experience that many people will have of cities they may never visit. Films influence the way we construct images of the world, and accordingly, in many instances, how we operate within it. Cinematic Cairo: Egyptian Urban Modernity from Reel to Real offers a history of Cairo’s urban modernity using film as the primary source of exploration, and cinematic space as both an analytical tool and a medium of critique. Cairo has provided rich subject material for Egypt’s film industry since the inception of the art form at the end of the nineteenth century. The “reel” city—imagined, perceived, and experienced—provides the spatial domain that mirrors change and allows for an interrogation of the “real” city as it encountered modernity over the course of a century. Bringing together chapters by architects and art and literary historians, this volume explores this parallel and convergent relationship through two sections. The first uses films from the 1930s to the end of the twentieth century to illustrate the development of a modern Cairo and its modern subjects. The second section is focused on tracing the transformation of the cinematic city under conditions of neoliberalism, religious fundamentalism, and gender tensions. The result is a comprehensive narrative of the urban modernity of one of the most important cities in the Arab world and Global South. Contributors Ahmed H. AbdelAzim, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Khaled Adham, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany Kinda AlSamara, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia Nezar AlSayyad, University of California, Berkeley, USA Doaa Al Amir, October 6th University, Cairo, Egypt Mirette Aziz, Misr International University, Egypt Muhammad Emad Feteha, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Farah Gendy, Raef Fahmi Architects, Cairo, Egypt Hala A. Hassanien, Architect, Wasl, Cairo, Egypt Tayseer Khairy, Arab Academy for Science Technology & Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt Mariam Marei, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt Ameer Saad, Architect, Dar Al-Handasa, Cairo, Egypt Heba Safey Eldeen, Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt Mohammad Salama, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA Nour Sobhi, Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt Sherin Soliman, Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt

Popular Egyptian Cinema

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Author : Viola Shafik
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2007

Popular Egyptian Cinema written by Viola Shafik and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Performing Arts categories.

In this groundbreaking work, film scholar Viola Shafik examines popular and commercial movies from Egypt's film industry, including a number of the biggest box-office hits widely distributed in Egypt and the Arab world. Turning a critical eye on a major player in Egyptian cultural life, Shafik examines these films against the backdrop of the country's overall socio-political development, from the emergence of the film industry in the 1930s, through the Nasser and Sadat eras, up to the era of globalization.This is the first comprehensive book on popular Egyptian cinema in English, a milestone at a time when numerous disciplines have shown an increasing interest in popular culture. As this book ably demonstrates, popular cinema is a form of wish-fulfillment that expresses mass audiences' dreams and fears, while symbolically translating and negotiating social realities.In unearthing the largely contradictory meanings conveyed by different films, Popular Egyptian Cinema examines a broad array of themes, from gender relations to feminism, Islamism and popular ideas about sexuality and morality. Focusing on representations of religious and ethnic minorities-primarily Copts, Jews, and Nubians-Shafik draws out issues such as the formation of the Egyptian nation, cinematic stereotyping, and political and social taboos. Shafik also considers pivotal genres, such as melodrama, realism, and action film, in relation to public debates over highbrow and lowbrow culture and in light of local and international film criticism.Popular Egyptian Cinema marks an important contribution to international film studies while offering general readers an engrossing and informative look at some of the most popular films in Egyptian cinema.

Arab Cinema

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Author : Viola Shafik
language : en
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2007

Arab Cinema written by Viola Shafik and has been published by American Univ in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.

Intended for scholars of film and the contemporary Middle East, this title provides a comprehensive overview of cinema in the Arab world, tracing the industry's development, since colonial times. It analyzes the ambiguous relationship with commercial western cinema, and the effect of Egyptian market dominance in the region.

Classic Egyptian Movies

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Author : Sameh Fathy
language : en
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2018-11-25

Classic Egyptian Movies written by Sameh Fathy and has been published by American University in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-25 with History categories.

A prolific film industry has flourished on the banks of the Nile since the earliest days of cinema, producing movies that have been hugely popular and immensely influential not only in Egypt but across the Arab world. Concentrating on productions written and produced entirely in Egypt, Sameh Fathy--a film critic with an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of Egyptian cinema--here selects the 101 most important movies to come out of Cairo's famous studios over the last eighty years. From classic comedies like Salam Is Fine to social dramas like The Second Wife, and from literary adaptations like Call of the Curlew to masterpieces of the cinematic art like The Night of Counting the Years, the author introduces us to each film's writers, producers, directors, and stars, and explains the movie's particular historical, cultural, or artistic significance. Illustrated throughout with posters and stills from all the movies covered.

Cinema Cairo

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Author : Rasha Azab
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018

Cinema Cairo written by Rasha Azab and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.

The Arab National Project In Youssef Chahine S Cinema

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Author : Malek Khouri
language : en
Publisher: American Univ in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2010

The Arab National Project In Youssef Chahine S Cinema written by Malek Khouri and has been published by American Univ in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Performing Arts categories.

An examination of the work of Egypts best-known filmmaker

Understanding The Public Sector In Egyptian Cinema A State Venture

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Author : Tamara Chahine Maatouk
language : en
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Release Date : 2019-11-04

Understanding The Public Sector In Egyptian Cinema A State Venture written by Tamara Chahine Maatouk and has been published by American University in Cairo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-04 with History categories.

In 1957 the public sector in Egyptian cinema was established, followed shortly by the emergence of public-sector film production in 1960, only to end eleven years later, in 1971. Assailed with negativity since its demise, if not earlier, this state adventure in film production was dismissed as a complete failure, financially, administratively and, most importantly, artistically. Although some scholars have sporadically commented on the role played by this sector, it has not been the object of serious academic research aimed at providing a balanced, nuanced general assessment of its overall impact. This issue of Cairo Papers hopes to address this gap in the literature on Egyptian cinema. After discussion of the role played by the public sector in trying to alleviate the financial crisis that threatened the film industry, this study investigates whether there was a real change in the general perception of the cinema, and the government’s attitude toward it, following the June 1967 Arab–Israeli war.

Dream Makers On The Nile

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Author : Mustafa Darwish
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 1998

Dream Makers On The Nile written by Mustafa Darwish and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.

On Egyptian cinema

The Cinema Of North Africa And The Middle East

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Author : Gönül Dönmez-Colin
language : en
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Release Date : 2007

The Cinema Of North Africa And The Middle East written by Gönül Dönmez-Colin and has been published by Wallflower Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.

"Twenty-four essays on individual selected films, many by scholars and writers based in the region. It explores established film cultures such as those of Turkey and Iran, and also nascent cinemas such as those of Israel, Palestine and Syria. ... Selected films include Cairo Station (Egypt, 1958), Umat (Turkey, 1970), The Runner (Iran, 1989) ... Once upon a time, Beriut (Lebanon, 1994), Chronicle of a disappearance (Palestine, 1996), Circle of dreams (Israel, 2000), Ten (Iran, 2002) and Uzak (Turkey, 2003)."--Page 4 of cover.

Revolutionary Melodrama

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Author : Joel S. Gordon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Revolutionary Melodrama written by Joel S. Gordon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.

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.