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The national imaginarium : a history of Egyptian filmmaking

الشماعة، مجدي منير author

2021

Overview

Spanning a century of Egyptian filmmaking, this work weaves together culture, history, politics, and economics to form a narrative of how Egyptian national identity came to be constructed and reconstructed over time on film. It goes beyond the films themselves to explore the processes of filmmakingı\"the artists that made it possible, the institutional networks, structures, and rules that bound them together, the changing social and political environment in which the films were produced, and the role of the state. In peeling back the curtain to reveal the complexities behind the screen, Magdy El-Shammaa shows cinema as at once both a reflection and a producer of larger cultural imaginings of the nation. 'The National Imaginarium' provides an in-depth description of the films discussed. It explores the construction of a populist consciousness that permeated and transcended class structures at mid-century in Egypt, and how this subsequently came undone in the face of the bewildering social, economic, and political transformations that the country underwent in the decades that followed.

• Publisher: The American University in Cairo Press
• Subject: Motion pictures Egypt History / Motion pictures Censorship Egypt History
• ISBN: 9774169727, 9789774169724

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PN1993.5.E3 E47 2021	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE
PN 1993.5 .E3 S53 2021	1	BOOK	ARTS