TY - BOOK AU - Khouri,Malek TI - The Arab national project in Youssef Chahine's cinema SN - 9774163540 (cloth): AV - PN1998.3.S447 K46 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Cairo, Egypt, New York PB - American University in Cairo Press KW - Shāhīn, Yūsuf KW - Motion pictures KW - Egypt KW - History KW - Production and direction KW - Plots, themes, etc KW - Arab nationalism N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-268) and index; An unfinished project : Chahine and the Arab national project -- Popular cinema and conceptualizing class and social change -- Political intervention and the struggle for national unity and liberation -- Institutional shifts and political divergences -- The prodigal director -- Identity and difference -- Resistance, heterogeneity, and historical memory -- Queer transgression and postcolonial ambivalence -- Religious fundamentalism and the power of history -- National liberation in the age of globalization -- Chahine as an author and as an Arab organic intellectual ER -