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Filming the modern Middle East : politics in the cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab world / Lina Khatib.
Series: Library of modern Middle East studies ; 57Publication details: London, UK ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris ; New York, NY : Distributed in the United States by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.Description: viii, 242 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1845111915 (pbk.):
- 9781845111915 (pbk.)
- 1845111923 (hbk.)
- 9781845111922 (hbk.)
- PN1995.9.A68 K38 2006
- Also available as e-book via the library catalog (on-campus access) for the AUD community only.
Contents:
Summary: Lina Khatib examines the cinematic depictions of major political issues, from the Arab-Israeli conflict to the Gulf War, to Islamic fundamentalism, looking at films made in the US, in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. She explores cinema's role as a tool of nationalism in the US and the Arab world, and the challenges the Arab cinemas present to Hollywood's dominant representations of Middle Eastern politics. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
The politicized landscape -- Gendered tools of nationalism -- Conflicts within and without: the Arab-Israeli conflict (and the Gulf War) -- From the other outside to the other within: representing Islamic fundamentalism -- On difference, resistance, and nationalism.
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| PN 1995.8 .S35 B66 2004 Science fiction television : a history / | PN 1995.9 .A3 A28 2004 Action and adventure cinema / | PN 1995.9 .A3 L48 2004 Action speaks louder : violence, spectacle, and the American action movie / | PN 1995.9 .A68 K38 2006 Filming the modern Middle East : politics in the cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab world / | PN 1995.9 .A68 K38 2006 Filming the modern Middle East : politics in the cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab world / | PN 1995.9 .A68 S54 2001 Reel bad Arabs : how Hollywood vilifies a people / | PN 1995.9 .A695 A73 2000 Architecture and film / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-227) and indexes.
Filmography: p. [229]-231.
The politicized landscape -- Gendered tools of nationalism -- Conflicts within and without: the Arab-Israeli conflict (and the Gulf War) -- From the other outside to the other within: representing Islamic fundamentalism -- On difference, resistance, and nationalism.
Also available as e-book via the library catalog (on-campus access) for the AUD community only.
Lina Khatib examines the cinematic depictions of major political issues, from the Arab-Israeli conflict to the Gulf War, to Islamic fundamentalism, looking at films made in the US, in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. She explores cinema's role as a tool of nationalism in the US and the Arab world, and the challenges the Arab cinemas present to Hollywood's dominant representations of Middle Eastern politics. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.
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