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Record Nr.

UNINA9910970795703321

Autore

Shafik Viola <1961->

Titolo

Popular Egyptian cinema : gender, class, and nation / / Viola Shafik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cairo ; ; New York, : American University in Cairo Press, 2007

ISBN

9781617970108

1617970107

9781617973758

1617973750

9781936190249

1936190249

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Disciplina

791.43

791.430962

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Egypt

National characteristics in motion pictures

Sex role in motion pictures

Social classes in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

4160530 -- 9789774160530.

Sommario/riassunto

In this groundbreaking work, film scholar Viola Shafik examines popular and commercial movies from Egypt's film industry, including a number of the biggest box-office hits widely distributed in Egypt and the Arab world. Turning a critical eye on a major player in Egyptian cultural life, Shafik examines these films against the backdrop of the country's overall socio-political development, from the emergence of the film industry in the 1930's, through the Nasser and Sadat eras, up to the era of globalization.In unearthing the largely contradictory meanings conveyed by different films, Popular