Grinkoli Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 Download Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity Book in PDF Format. Too Many Books Available in Our Site. Review "Shafik discusses the history, genres, and esthetics of Arab film. She is very good at analyzing its antecedents in Arab literary, theatrical, storytelling, and musical traditions. She gives broad coverage to typical genres and is particularly good on realism and the cinema d auteur. Although Shafik focuses on Egyptian films, which comprise well more than half of all Arab films made, she discusses the films of the other Arab nations as well, delineating the differences and similarities among them. The author devotes the preponderance of the book to the films themselves, but she is also thorough in her analysis of the conditions political, religious, economic that determine what films are made Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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