
- 302 pages
- English
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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
- Subvention
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction: Moumen Smihi, World Cinema, Arab Modernism
- Chapter One: Radical Realities: Form and Politics in the New Arab Cinema
- Chapter Two: The Voice of the Arabs: Smihi’s Soundscapes
- Chapter Three: Kan ya makan: Intertextuality and Arab Modernism
- Chapter Four: Religion, Secularism, Modernity
- Chapter Five: For a New Nahda: Gender, Sexuality, and Freedom
- Notes
- Filmography
- Bibliography
- Index