1 Reframing the Study of Muslims and Islam in Film
Kristian Petersen
Part 1 New Sources
2 Race, Torture Porn, and the Menacing Black Muslimness of Five Fingers
Mika'il A. Petin
3 Muhammad as a Synthesis of Meditation and Action: A 1932 Screenplay by Nikos Kazantzakis
Panayiota Mini
4 Being a (Muslim) Worker in the Egyptian Film Industry
Chihab El Khachab
Part 2 New Communities
5 Puerto Rican Muslims in Post-9/11 Documentaries: Authenticity, Cultural Identity and Communal Belonging
Yamil Avivi
6 Performing Identities: Intersections of Muslim Sexuality, Gender, and Race in Touch of Pink and Shades of Ray
Aman Agah
Part 3 New Perspectives
7 "Oh, What if We Call Him Allah?" Ambiguous Orientalism in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Crusades
David Blanke
8 Mystics in the Movies: Sufism in Global Cinema
Emily O'Dell
9 Depicting the Prophet without Showing Him
Bilal Yorulmaz
Part 4 New Directions
10 "I Can Take Your Eyes": Re-Envisioning Religion and Gender in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Megan Goodwin
11 Negotiating Borders, Gender, and Identity: A Transnational Feminist Study of an Iranian Documentary
Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi
12 Film as a Scene of ‘Rupture’: Religion, Gender and Rights in Muslim Communities
Milja Radovic
Part 5 New Understandings of Conflict
13 Islam, Gender, and Extremist Violence in Contemporary Egyptian Cinema
Clarissa Burt
14 Citizenship, Ethnicity, and Religion: Muslim Immigrants in German Cinematic Arts
Anna Akasoy
15 Together in the Midst of War: Muslim and Christian Coexistence in Lebanese Cinema
Sérgio Dias Branco
Biography
Kristian Petersen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Old Dominion University, USA.
