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1 electronic resource (238 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-232) and index. |
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In spite of harsh censorship, conservative morals and a lack of investment, women documentarists in the Arab world have found ways to subtly negotiate dissidence in their films, something that is becoming more apparent since the 'Arab Revolutions'. In this book, Stefanie Van de Peer traces the very beginnings of Arab women making documentaries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), from the 1970s and 1980s in Egypt and Lebanon, to the 1990s and 2000s in Morocco and Syria. Supporting a historical overview of the documentary form in the Arab world with a series of in-depth case studies, Van de Peer looks at the work of pioneering figures like Ateyyat El Abnoudy, the 'mother of Egyptian documentary', Tunisia's Selma Baccar and the Palestinian filmmaker Mai Masri. Addressing the context of the films' production, distribution and exhibition, the book also asks why these women held on to the ideals of a type of filmmaking that was unlikely to be accepted by the censor, and looks at precisely how the women documentarists managed to frame expressions of dissent with the tools available to the documentary maker. |
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Description based on print version record; resource not viewed. |
| Contents |
Ateyyat El Abnoudy: Poetic Realism in Egyptian Documentaries -- Jocelyne Saab: Artistic-Journalistic Documentaries in Lebanese Times of War -- Selma Baccar: Non-fiction in Tunisia, the Land of Fictions -- Assia Djebar: Algerian Images-son in Experimental Documentaries -- Mai Masri: Mothering Film-makers in Palestinian Revolutionary Cinema -- Izza Genini: The Performance of Heritage in Moroccan Music Documentaries -- Hala Alabdallah Yakoub: Documentary as Poetic Subjective Experience in Syria. |
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English. |
| Subject |
Censorship -- Africa, North -- History.
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Censorship -- Middle East -- History.
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Documentary films -- Africa, North -- History and criticism.
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Documentary films -- Middle East -- History and criticism.
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Women motion picture producers and directors -- Africa, North -- History.
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Women motion picture producers and directors -- Middle East -- History.
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PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Reference.
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Censorship. (OCoLC)fst00850568
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Documentary films. (OCoLC)fst00896079
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Women motion picture producers and directors. (OCoLC)fst01178163
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Africa, North. (OCoLC)fst01239515
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Middle East. (OCoLC)fst01241586
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Dokumentarfilm.
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Filmregisseurin.
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Arabische Staaten.
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Performing Arts |
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Film |
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Direction & Production |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Negotiating dissidence Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2017] 9780748696062 (hbk.) (DLC) 2016286270 |
| ISBN |
9780748696079 webready PDF |
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9781474423380 epub |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9780748696079 doi |
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