Screens and Veils : Maghrebi Women's Cinema Paperback / softback
by Florence Martin
Part of the New Directions in National Cinemas series
Paperback / softback
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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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 25 b&w illus.
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:13/10/2011
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- ISBN:9780253223418
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:288 pages, 25 b&w illus.
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:13/10/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9780253223418
