LEADER 04262nam 2200661 450 001 9910787894503321 005 20220720140649.0 010 $a0-231-53719-0 024 7 $a10.7312/lang16506 035 $a(CKB)2670000000528889 035 $a(EBL)1609799 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001112772 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11661581 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001112772 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11161834 035 $a(PQKB)11538702 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000744867 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1609799 035 $a(DE-B1597)458406 035 $a(OCoLC)870947939 035 $a(OCoLC)979967731 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231537193 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1609799 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10860276 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL608775 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000528889 100 $a20140425h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNew Tunisian cinema $eallegories of resistance /$fRobert Lang ; Milenda Nan, cover design ; Fatma Ben, cover image 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (409 p.) 225 1 $aFilm and Culture 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-231-16507-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references, filmography and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tChapter One. The nation, the State, and the Cinema --$tChapter Two. "The freedom to be different, to choose your own life": Man of Ashes (Nouri Bouzid, 1986) --$tChapter Three. Laughter in the dark: Sexuality and the Police State in Halfaouine (Férid Boughedir, 1990) --$tChapter Four. Sexual allegories of national identity: Bezness (Nouri Bouzid, 1992) --$tChapter Five. The Colonizer and the Colonized: The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli, 1994) --$tChapter Six. "it takes two of us to discover truth": Essaïda (Mohamed Zran, 1996) --$tChapter Seven. "It takes a lot of unruly individuals to make a free people": Bedwin Hacker (Nadia el Fani, 2002) --$tChapter Eight. Inventing the Postcolonial nation/Constructing a usable Past: The TV Is Coming (Moncef Dhouib, 2006) --$tChapter Nine. "Destiny answers the people's call for life, darkness will be dispelled, and chains will break" --$tNotes --$tFilmography --$tGlossary --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tBackmatter 330 $aTunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas. For many, Tunisia appeared to be a model of equipoise between "East" and "West," and yet, during Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's presidency, from 1987 to 2011, the country became the most repressive state in the Maghreb. Against considerable odds, a generation of filmmakers emerged in the mid-1980s to make films that are allegories of resistance to the increasingly illiberal trends that were marking their society. In New Tunisian Cinema, Robert Lang focuses on eight films by some of the nation's best-known directors, including Man of Ashes (1986), Bezness (1992) and Making Of (2006) by Nouri Bouzid, Halfaouine (1990) by Férid Boughedir, The Silences of the Palace (1994) by Moufida Tlatli, Essaïda (1997) by Mohamed Zran, Bedwin Hacker (2002) by Nadia El Fani, and The TV Is Coming (2006) by Moncef Dhouib. He explores the political economy and social, historical, and psychoanalytic dimensions of these works and the strategies filmmakers deployed to preserve cinema's ability to shape debates about national identity. These debates, Lang argues, not only helped initiate the 2011 uprising that ousted Ben Ali's regime but also did much to inform and articulate the aspirations of the Tunisian people in the new millennium. 410 0$aFilm and culture. 606 $aMotion pictures$zTunisia 606 $aPostcolonialism 615 0$aMotion pictures 615 0$aPostcolonialism. 676 $a791.4309611 700 $aLang$b Robert$f1957-$01567592 702 $aNan$b Milenda 702 $aBen$b Fatma 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787894503321 996 $aNew Tunisian cinema$93839086 997 $aUNINA