Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema /
While Middle Eastern culture does not tend to be associated with laughter and levity in the global imagination, humor-often satirical-has long been a staple of mainstream Arabic film. In "Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema, " editors Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman shed light on this tradition,...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Detroit, MI :
Wayne State University Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman
- Humor, loss, and the possibility for politics in recent Palestinian cinema / Najat Rahman
- Strategies of subversion in Ben Ali's Tunisia : allegory and satire in Moncef Dhouib's The TV is coming / Robert Lang
- Satiric traversals in the comedy of Mehrān Modiri : space, irony, and national allegory on Iranian television / Cyrus Ali Zargar
- Ethnic humor, stereotypes, and cultural power in Israeli cinema / Elise Burton
- The laughter of Youssef Chahine / Najat Rahman
- Comedic mediations : war and genre in The outcasts / Somy Kim
- Humor and the cinematic sublime in Kiarostami's The wind will carry us / Gayatri Devi
- America the oppressively funny : humor and anti-Americanisms in modern Turkish cinema / Perin Gurel
- Laughter across borders : the case of the Bollywood film Tere Bin Laden / Mara Matta.