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New Tunisian Cinema : Allegories of Resistance.

Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas, a model of equipoise between?East" and?West" and the defender of a fierce, sovereign style. Even during the repressive regime that ruled Tunisia from 1987 to 2011, a generation of filmmakers produced allegories of r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lang, Robert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, 2014.
Colección:Film and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas, a model of equipoise between?East" and?West" and the defender of a fierce, sovereign style. Even during the repressive regime that ruled Tunisia from 1987 to 2011, a generation of filmmakers produced allegories of resistance that defied their society's increasingly illiberal trends. In New Tunisian Cinema, Robert Lang reads eight contemporary Tunisian films, many by some of the nation's best-known directors, including: Man of Ashes (1986), Bezness (1992), and Making Of (2006) by Nouri Bouzid; Halfaouine (1990) b
Descripción Física:1 online resource (409 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
ISBN:9780231537193
0231537190