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Sensuous cinema : the body in contemporary Maghrebi film
Sensuous Cinema: The Body in Contemporary Maghrebi Film examines a cluster of recent films that feature Maghrebi(-French) people and position corporeality as a site through which subjectivity and self-other relations are constituted and experienced. These films are set in and between the countries of the Maghreb, France and, to a lesser degree, Switzerland, and often adopt a sensual aesthetic that prioritizes embodied knowledge, the interrelation of the senses and the material realities of emotional experience. However, despite the importance of the body in these films, no study to date has taken corporeality as its primary point of concern. This new addition to the Thinking Cinema series interweaves corporeal phenomenology with theological and feminist scholarship on the body from the Maghreb and the Middle East to examine how Maghrebi(-French) people of different genders, ethnicities, sexualities, ages and classes have been represented corporeally in contemporary Maghrebi and French cinemas. Via detailed textual and phenomenological analyses of films such as Red Satin (Amari 2002), Exiles (Gatlif 2004), Couscous (Kechiche 2007) and Salvation Army (Taia 2014), Kaya Hayon Davies conveys the pivotal role that corporeality plays in articulating identity and the emotions in these films.
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Changes in political trust in Britain during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020: integrated public opinion evidence and implications
In this paper, we document changes in political trust in the UK throughout 2020 so as to consider wider implications for the ongoing handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analysed data from 18 survey organisations with measures on political trust (general, leadership, and COVID-19-related) spanning the period December 2019–October 2020. We examined the percentage of trust and distrust across time, identifying where significant changes coincide with national events. Levels of political trust were low following the 2019 UK General Election. They rose at the onset of UK lockdown imposed in March 2020 but showed persistent gradual decline throughout the remainder of the year, falling to pre-COVID levels by October 2020. Inability to sustain the elevated political trust achieved at the onset of the pandemic is likely to have made the management of public confidence and behaviour increasingly challenging, pointing to the need for strategies to sustain trust levels when handling future crises.
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Transnational Arab stardom : glamour, performance and politics
\"A richly illustrated collection, structured along chronological, geographical and thematic lines, this book offers a significant new approach to Arab film studies and to star studies by expanding both fields through critical engagement by scholars from across the globe\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Exoticism or Empowerment? The Representation of Non-normative Women and Prostitution in Nabil Ayouch’s Much Loved
Veiling is not compulsory in Morocco, but women are expected to wear clothing that covers certain parts of their bodies (breasts, shoulders, torso, knees) in the public domain. [...]female sexuality is heavily controlled, and women are not supposed to engage in sexual relations with men outside marriage. Yet, as Moha Ennaji explains, \"[i]nequality concerning inheritance is maintained\" and women are still expected to conform to certain gendered norms regarding their appearance and behavior.5 Moreover, unemployment levels remain high, and illiteracy is widespread amongst women from rural areas in particular.6 Though the so-called Arab Spring of 2011 did not result in regime change in Morocco, it did lead to the 20 February Movement, during which crowds of women and men gathered in the streets to demand greater legal and cultural rights (Sadiqi 140). [...]although their legal status has improved since 2004, Moroccan women still suffer from higher poverty and unemployment levels than men. [...]of their lifestyle and work, prostitutes are not considered to be able to act virtuously and are relegated to the margins of Moroccan society.
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Faiza Ambah's Mariam and the Embodied Politics of Veiling in France
This article argues that
Mariam
uses its eponymous heroine's lived and embodied experiences of veiling to explore the impact of French secular legislation on Muslim schoolgirls' everyday lives in France. Interweaving secularism studies, feminism and phenomenology, I argue that the film portrays the headscarf as the primary means by which its protagonist is able to resist male patriarchal authority and negotiate her hybrid subjectivity. I conclude that
Mariam
offers a nuanced representation of veiling that troubles the perceived distinctions between Islam and secularism, oppression and freedom, and the veil and feminism in France and the West.
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The Embodiment of Subjectivity in Contemporary Maghrebi and French Cinemas
This thesis examines a cluster of recent films that feature people of Maghrebi heritage and position corporeality as a site through which subjectivity and self-other relations are constituted and experienced. These films are set in and between the countries of the Maghreb, France and, to a lesser degree, Switzerland, and often adopt a sensual aesthetic that prioritises embodied knowledge, the interrelation of the senses and the material realities of emotional experience. However, despite the importance of the body in these films, no study to date has taken corporeality as its primary point of concern. Existing research in French and Francophone Studies focuses almost exclusively on the socio-political issues raised by the phenomenon of French \"beur\" cinema (films by and/or about young Maghrebi-French people), meaning that there has been no extended scholarly investigation into the importance of corporeality in recent films featuring people of Maghrebi heritage. Underpinned by an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that interweaves corporeal phenomenology with theological and feminist scholarship on the body from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), this thesis seeks to provide the first longitudinal and comparative account of how Maghrebi people of different genders, ethnicities, sexualities, ages and classes have been represented corporeally in post-millennial Maghrebi and French cinemas. Via its acute focus on images of people of Maghrebi heritage and how their representations show them engaging with their environments through their bodies, this thesis is the first to apply the recent turn to corporeal phenomenology in Film Studies and feminism to critical interrogations of Maghrebi identities in Maghrebi and French films since the new millennium.
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