New Approaches to Islam in Film

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Contributors 1 Reframing the study of Muslims and Islam in film PART I New sources 2 Race, torture porn, and the menacing Black Muslimness of Five Fingers 3 Muhammad as a synthesis of meditation and action: a 1932 screenplay by Nikos Kazantzakis 4 Being a (Muslim) worker in the Egyptian film industry PART II New communities 5 Puerto Rican Muslims in post-9/11 documentaries: authenticity, cultural identity, and communal belonging 6 Performing identities: intersections of Muslim sexuality, gender, and race in Touch of Pink and Shades of Ray PART III New perspectives 7 “Oh, what if we call him Allah?” ambiguous orientalism in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Crusades 8 Mystics in the movies: Sufism in global cinema 9 Depicting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) without showing him PART IV New directions 10 “I Can Take Your Eyes”: re-envisioning religion and gender in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night 11 Negotiating borders, gender, and identity: a transnational feminist study of an Iranian documentary 12 Film as a scene of “Rupture”: religion, gender, and rights in Muslim communities PART V New understandings of conflict 13 Islam, gender, and extremist violence in contemporary Egyptian cinema 14 Citizenship, ethnicity, and religion: Muslim immigrants in German cinematic arts 15 Together in the midst of war: Muslim and Christian coexistence in Lebanese cinema Index