TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khatib,Lina
TI  - Lebanese cinema: imaging the civil war and beyond 
SN  - 9781845116286 (pbk)
AV  - PN 1993.5 K45l 2008
U1  - 791.43095692 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London [u.a.]
PB  - Tauris
KW  - Películas
KW  - Cine
KW  - Líbano
KW  - Historia
KW  - Guerra civil, 1975-1990
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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