Arab cinema : history and cultural identity /

Shafik, Viola, 1961-

Arab cinema : history and cultural identity / Viola Shafik - New revised [and expanded] edition - Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 2007. - vi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Traducido de: Arabische Film.

Intended for scholars of film and the contemporary Middle East, this title provides a comprehensive overview of cinema in the Arab world, tracing the industry's development, since colonial times. It analyzes the ambiguous relationship with commercial western cinema, and the effect of Egyptian market dominance in the region.

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Motion pictures--History.--Arab countries
Cine--Historia y crítica--Países árabes
Cine árabe
Arabs in motion pictures.
Arabes en el cine

PN 1993.5 / S525a 2007

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