Ten Arab Filmmakers: Political Dissent and Social Critique

Josef Gugler (Editor), Christa Salamandra, Jonathan Smolin, Dalia Said Mostafa, Tim Kennedy, Refqa Abu-Remaileh, Viola Shafik, Benjamin Geer, Guy Austin, and Will Higbee

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Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled here represent principal national cinemas of the Arab world-Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Syria. Although they have produced many of the region's most-renowned films and gained recognition at major international festivals, with few exceptions these filmmakers have received little critical attention. All ten share a concern with giving image and voice to people struggling against authoritarian regimes, patriarchal traditions, or religious fundamentalism-theirs is a cinema engage.

The featured directors are Daoud Abd El-Sayed, Merzak Allouache, Nabil Ayouch, Youssef Chahine, Mohamed Chouikh, Michel Khleifi, Nabil Maleh, Yousry Nasrallah, Jocelyne Saab, and Elia Suleiman.

  • ISBN10 0253016584
  • ISBN13 9780253016584
  • Publish Date 29 June 2015
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 10 April 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Indiana University Press
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 264
  • Language English