Revolutions Aesthetic : A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria /

The November 1970 coup that brought Hafiz al-Asad to power fundamentally transformed cultural production in Syria. A comprehensive intellectual, ideological, and political project-a Ba'thist cultural revolution-sought to align artistic endeavors with the ideological interests of the regime. The...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weiss, Max (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2022]
Colección:Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
Temas:
Politics and culture > Syria > History.
HISTORY / Middle East / General.
Baʿthism.
Middle East studies.
Syria.
aesthetics.
cultural history.
film studies.
intellectual history.
literary criticism.
political science.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Introduction. Aesthetics and Politics in Contemporary Syria
  • Chapter 1 Baʿthist Cultural Revolution
  • Chapter 2 Men of Commitment
  • Chapter 3 The Funny Thing about Dictatorship
  • Chapter 4 Reading Writing Mukhabarat
  • Chapter 5 The Slow Witness
  • Chapter 6 Faces of Death
  • Conclusion: The Art of the Real
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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