Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
139952075X
ISBN-13
9781399520751
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 31st, 2023
Print length
448 Pages
Weight
856 grams
Dimensions
16.20 x 24.10 x 3.30 cms
Product Classification:
Films, cinemaReligious groups: social & cultural aspectsIslamic studies
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Explores over 30 feature films from the formative years of Egyptian cinema (1919 52) to contest the contradiction between Islam and innovation.
This book studies the rise of cinema in colonial Egypt as a supplemental secular public sphere that is not anti-religion. To this end, it investigates the reception of film by three centers of powers: the colonial authorities, the Muslim clergy, and the Cairene bourgeoisie. It inquires about the representations of modernity in films produced during the time and the place filmmakers assigned to Islam in these representations. The result is a story of survival and coexistence told through the lens of cinema as modern art and popular culture negotiating its overt and covert censorship in the public sphere, despite colonization and war.
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