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- Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women's Cinema
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Indiana University Press
- Series: New Directions in National Cinemas
summary
Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various meanings of the Arabic term hijab (veil, curtain, screen). Martin analyzes these films on their own theoretical terms, developing the notion of "transvergence" to examine how Maghrebi women's cinema is flexible, playful, and transgressive in its themes, aesthetics, narratives, and modes of address. These are distinctive films that traverse multiple cultures, both borrowing from and resisting the discourses these cultures propose.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- 1 Assia Djebar’s Transvergent Nuba
- pp. 43-62
- 4 Raja Amari’s Screen of the Haptic
- pp. 113-130
- 5 Nadia El Fani’s Multiple Screens
- pp. 131-158
- 6 Yasmine Kassari’s “Burning” Screens
- pp. 161-182
- 7 Selma Baccar’s Transvergent Spectatorship
- pp. 183-209
- Appendix B: Primary Filmography
- pp. 223-236
- Bibliography
- pp. 257-266
Additional Information
ISBN
9780253005656
Related ISBN(s)
9780253223418, 9780253356680
MARC Record
OCLC
756501586
Pages
288
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-11
Language
English
Open Access
No