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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2014.
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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.