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Lebanese cinema : imaging the civil war and beyond / Lina Khatib.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Series: Tauris world cinema seriesPublication details: London [u.a.] : Tauris, 2008.Description: 224 SISBN:
  • 9781845116286 (pbk)
  • 1845116283 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43095692
LOC classification:
  • PN 1993.5 K45l 2008
Contents:
On Lebanese national identity -- A brief history of cinema in Lebanon -- Imagining Beirut -- Social and religious breakdown -- Violence and masculinity -- Mothers, fighters and taboo breakers -- War and memory -- Epilogue : on national cinema.
Summary: Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 1975 have been about this war. Lina Khatib takes 1975 Beirut as her starting point, and takes us right through to today for this, the first major book on Lebanese cinema and its links with politics and national identity. She examines how Lebanon is imagined in such films as Jocelyn Saab's "Once Upon a Time, Beirut", Ghassan Salhab's "Terra Incognita", and Ziad Doueiri's "West Beirut". In so doing, she re-examines the im.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1993.5 K45l 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000074532

On Lebanese national identity -- A brief history of cinema in Lebanon -- Imagining Beirut -- Social and religious breakdown -- Violence and masculinity -- Mothers, fighters and taboo breakers -- War and memory -- Epilogue : on national cinema.

Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 1975 have been about this war. Lina Khatib takes 1975 Beirut as her starting point, and takes us right through to today for this, the first major book on Lebanese cinema and its links with politics and national identity. She examines how Lebanon is imagined in such films as Jocelyn Saab's "Once Upon a Time, Beirut", Ghassan Salhab's "Terra Incognita", and Ziad Doueiri's "West Beirut". In so doing, she re-examines the im.

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