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North African Cinema in a Global Context Through the Lens of Diaspora 1st Edition

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Full Title

North African Cinema in a Global Context Through the Lens of Diaspora 1st Edition

Author(s)

Andrea Khalil

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781317968627, 9780415460323, 9781315869087, 9781317968634, 9781317968610, 9781138864641

Publisher

Routledge

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

This book provides insight into contemporary film production from North African countries referred to as the Maghreb. Focus is both on the socio-economic context of film production, which suffers some of the same setbacks and obstacles as other regions of the developing world, and on the thematic details treated in the films themselves. The book delves into ideas such as gender and sexuality, national identity, political conflict, and issues of post and neo-colonial relationships in the context of globalisation. The book includes close analyses of individual films which at times show the taboo subjects of sexual and substance abuse, the lives of street children, and prostitution, as well as upper-class contradictions between an increasingly global position of privilege while in the midst of a traditionalist society. Others chapters focus on an individual filmmakers’ world view as depicted in representations of contemporary daily life of the average Tunisian, Moroccan or Algerian. The book provides an understanding of day to day existence in Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria as depicted by local artists. The theoretical questions raised stretch beyond this topic to touch on ‘third world’ art and film production, and production in conditions of political repression and rigid moral conservatism.