1st Edition

North African Cinema in a Global Context Through the Lens of Diaspora

Edited By Andrea Khalil Copyright 2008
120 Pages
by Routledge

120 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides insight into contemporary film production from North African countries referred to as the Maghreb. Focus is both on the socio-economic context of film production, which suffers some of the same setbacks and obstacles as other regions of the developing world, and on the thematic details treated in the films themselves. The book delves into ideas such as gender and sexuality,... Read more

Introduction, Andrea Khalil

Kevin Dwyer. "Moroccan Cinema and the Promotion of Culture", Anthropology, American University in Cairo

Brian T. Edwards. "Marok in Morocco: Reading Moroccan Films in the Age of Circulation", English and Comparative Literature, Northwestern University.

Robert Lang. "Sexual Allegories of National Identity in Nouri Bouzid’s Bezness (1992)", Cinema, University of Hartford.

Andrea Khalil. "The Myth of Masculinity in the Films of Merzak Allouache", Comparative Literature, Queens College, City University of New York.

Hakim Abderrezak. "The Modern Harem in Moknèche’s Le Harem de Mme Osmane and Viva Laldgérie". French and Francophone Studies, University of Minnesota.

Josef Gugler. "Ali Zaoua: The harsh Life of Street Children and the Poetics of Childhood". Sociology, University of Connectitut.

Biography

Andrea Khalil is a professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College, CUNY and of French and Francophone Studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of The Arab Avant-Garde: Experiments in North African Art and Literature.