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Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World (Library of International Relations)

By Lina Khatib

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
1845111915, 9781845111915, 1845111923, 9781845111922, 9781429462662
Open Library ID
OL22739920M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
524 kB (536968 bytes)
Pages
256\255
Topic
Art Cinema
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Lina Khatib examines the cinematic depictions of major political issues, from the Arab-Israeli conflict to the Gulf War, to Islamic fundamentalism, looking at films made in the US, in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. She explores cinema's role as a tool of nationalism in the US and the Arab world, and the challenges the Arab cinemas present to Hollywood's dominant representations of Middle Eastern politics.

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