Screens and veils : Maghrebi women's cinema / Florence Martin.
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TextSeries: New directions in national cinemasPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 271 pages) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780253005656
- 0253005655
- 9786613626431
- 6613626430
- Motion pictures -- Africa, North -- History -- 20th century
- Motion pictures -- Africa, North -- History -- 21st century
- Women motion picture producers and directors -- Africa, North
- Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Africa, North
- Women in motion pictures
- Africa, North -- In motion pictures
- Cinéma -- Afrique du Nord -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Cinéma -- Afrique du Nord -- Histoire -- 21e siècle
- Productrices et réalisatrices de cinéma -- Afrique du Nord
- Cinéma -- Aspect social -- Afrique du Nord
- Femmes au cinéma
- ART -- Film & Video
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- Reference
- PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- General
- Motion pictures
- Motion pictures -- Social aspects
- Women in motion pictures
- Women motion picture producers and directors
- North Africa
- Frauenfilm
- Maghreb
- 1900-2099
- 791.430961 22
- PN1993.5.A35 M37 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Overture: Maghrebi women's transvergent cinema -- Transnational feminist storytellers: Shahrazad, Assia, and Farida. Assia Djebar's transvergent Nuba: the Nuba of the women of Mount Chenoua (Algeria, 1978) -- Farida Benlyazid's initiation narrative: A door to the sky (Morocco, 1988) -- Transvergent screens. Yamina Bachir-Chouikh's transvergent echoes: Rachida (Algeria, 2002) -- Raja Amari's screen of the haptic: Red satin (Tunisia, 2002) -- Nadia El Fani's multiple screens: Bedwin hacker (Tunisia, 2002) -- From Dunyazad to transvergent audiences. Yasmine Kassari's "burning" screens: The sleeping child (Morocco, 2004) -- Selma Baccar's transvergent spectatorship: Flower of oblivion (Tunisia, 2006) -- Coda.
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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 flexi.
English.
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