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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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  • Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. The Nation, the State, and the Cinema; 2. "The freedom to be different, to choose your own life": Man of Ashes (Nouri Bouzid, 1986); 3. Laughter in the Dark: Sexuality and the Police State in Halfaouine (Férid Boughedir, 1990); 4. Sexual Allegories of National Identity: Bezness (Nouri Bouzid, 1992); 5. The Colonizer and the Colonized: The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli, 1994); 6. "It takes two of us to discover truth": Essaïda (Mohamed Zran, 1996).
  • 7. "It takes a lot of unruly individuals to make a free people": Bedwin Hacker (Nadia El Fani, 2002)8. Inventing the Postcolonial Nation/Constructing a Usable Past: The TV Is Coming (Moncef Dhouib, 2006); 9. "Destiny answers the people's call for life, darkness will be dispelled, and chains will break"; Notes; Filmography; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.