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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,...

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Détails bibliographiques
Autres auteurs: Rahman, Najat (Éditeur intellectuel), Devi, Gayatri (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Detroit, MI : Wayne State University Press, 2014.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Wit and humor in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Humour au cinema.
Motion pictures > Middle East.
Middle East.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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