North African Cinema in a Global Context

Through the Lens of Diaspora (livre en anglais)

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Type

Etudes

Sujet

Pays > Afrique

Mots Clés

Maghreb, mondial

Année d'édition

2015

Editeur

Routledge

1ere édition

2008

Langue

anglais

Taille du livre

Format

Broché • 120 pages
16 x 24 cm

ISBN

978-1-138-86464-1

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Description de l'ouvrage :
This book provides insight into contemporary film production from North African countries referred to as the Maghreb. Focus is both on the socio-economic context of film production, which suffers some of the same setbacks and obstacles as other regions of the developing world, and on the thematic details treated in the films themselves. The book delves into ideas such as gender and sexuality, national identity, political conflict, and issues of post and neo-colonial relationships in the context of globalisation.

The book includes close analyses of individual films which at times show the taboo subjects of sexual and substance abuse, the lives of street children, and prostitution, as well as upper-class contradictions between an increasingly global position of privilege while in the midst of a traditionalist society. Others chapters focus on an individual filmmakers’ world view as depicted in representations of contemporary daily life of the average Tunisian, Moroccan or Algerian. The book provides an understanding of day to day existence in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria as depicted by local artists. The theoretical questions raised stretch beyond this topic to touch on ‘third world’ art and film production, and production in conditions of political repression and rigid moral conservatism.

À propos de l'auteur :
Andrea Khalil is a professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College, CUNY and of French and Francophone Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of The Arab Avant-Garde: Experiments in North African Art and Literature.

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