Popular Egyptian cinema : gender, class, and nation / / Viola Shafik
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| Autore: |
Shafik Viola <1961->
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| Titolo: |
Popular Egyptian cinema : gender, class, and nation / / Viola Shafik
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| Pubblicazione: | Cairo ; ; New York, : American University in Cairo Press, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 791.43 |
| 791.430962 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Motion pictures - Egypt |
| National characteristics in motion pictures | |
| Sex role in motion pictures | |
| Social classes in motion pictures | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Popular Egyptian cinema |
| ISBN: | 9781617970108 |
| 1617970107 | |
| 9781617973758 | |
| 1617973750 | |
| 9781936190249 | |
| 1936190249 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910970795703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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