Arab Modernism as World Cinema
eBook - ePub

Arab Modernism as World Cinema

The Films of Moumen Smihi

  1. 302 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Arab Modernism as World Cinema

The Films of Moumen Smihi

About this book

Arab Modernism as World Cinema explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, demonstrating the importance of Moroccan and Arab film cultures in histories of world cinema. Addressing the legacy of the Nahda or "Arab Renaissance" of the nineteenth and early twentieth century—when Arab writers and artists reenergized Arab culture by engaging with other languages and societies—Peter Limbrick argues that Smihi's films take up the spirit of the Nahda for a new age. Examining Smihi's oeuvre, which enacts an exchange of images and ideas between Arab and non-Arab cultures, Limbrick rethinks the relation of Arab cinema to modernism and further engages debates about the use of modernist forms by filmmakers in the Global South. This original study offers new routes for thinking about world cinema and modernism in the Middle East and North Africa, and about Arab cinema in the world.

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Table of contents

  1. Subvention
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Note on Transliteration
  8. Introduction: Moumen Smihi, World Cinema, Arab Modernism
  9. Chapter One: Radical Realities: Form and Politics in the New Arab Cinema
  10. Chapter Two: The Voice of the Arabs: Smihi’s Soundscapes
  11. Chapter Three: Kan ya makan: Intertextuality and Arab Modernism
  12. Chapter Four: Religion, Secularism, Modernity
  13. Chapter Five: For a New Nahda: Gender, Sexuality, and Freedom
  14. Notes
  15. Filmography
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index