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New Tunisian Cinema : Allegories of Resistance /

Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas. For many, Tunisia appeared to be a model of equipoise between "East" and "West," and yet, during Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's presidency, from 1987 to 2011, the country became the most repressive state i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lang, Robert (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Colección:Film and Culture Series
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter One. The nation, the State, and the Cinema
  • Chapter Two. "The freedom to be different, to choose your own life": Man of Ashes (Nouri Bouzid, 1986)
  • Chapter Three. Laughter in the dark: Sexuality and the Police State in Halfaouine (Férid Boughedir, 1990)
  • Chapter Four. Sexual allegories of national identity: Bezness (Nouri Bouzid, 1992)
  • Chapter Five. The Colonizer and the Colonized: The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli, 1994)
  • Chapter Six. "it takes two of us to discover truth": Essaïda (Mohamed Zran, 1996)
  • Chapter Seven. "It takes a lot of unruly individuals to make a free people": Bedwin Hacker (Nadia el Fani, 2002)
  • Chapter Eight. Inventing the Postcolonial nation/Constructing a usable Past: The TV Is Coming (Moncef Dhouib, 2006)
  • Chapter Nine. "Destiny answers the people's call for life, darkness will be dispelled, and chains will break"
  • Notes
  • Filmography
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Backmatter