Lang New Tunisian Cinema

Allegories of Resistance
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-53719-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Film and Culture Series

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Lang, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Nation, the State, and the Cinema
2. "The freedom to be different, to choose your own life": Man of Ashes (Nouri Bouzid, 1986)
3. Laughter in the Dark: Sexuality and the Police State in Halfaouine (Férid Boughedir, 1990)
4. Sexual Allegories of National Identity: Bezness (Nouri Bouzid, 1992)
5. The Colonizer and the Colonized: The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli, 1994)
6. "It takes two of us to discover truth": Essaïda (Mohamed Zran, 1996)
7. "It takes a lot of unruly individuals to make a free people": Bedwin Hacker (Nadia El Fani, 2002)
8. Inventing the Postcolonial Nation/Constructing a Usable Past: The TV Is Coming (Moncef Dhouib, 2006)
9. "Destiny answers the people's call for life, darkness will be dispelled, and chains will break"
Notes
Filmography
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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Über Autor(innen)

Robert Lang is professor of cinema at the University of Hartford. He is the author of Masculine Interests: Homoerotics in Hollywood Film and American Film Melodrama: Griffith, Vidor, Minnelli and the editor of The Birth of a Nation: D. W. Griffith, Director. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Tunis from 1993 to 1994 and from 2001 to 2003.