Egyptian Cinema and the 2011 Revolution

Film Production and Representing Dissent

Ahmed Ghazal (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2022
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
9780755635429 (ISBN)

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Egypt's film industry is the largest in the Middle East, with an output that spreads across the region and the world. In the run-up to and throughout the 2011 Revolution, a complex relationship formed between the industry and the people's uprising. Both a form of political expression and a documentation of historical events, 'revolutionary' film techniques have contributed to the cultural memory of 2011. At the same time, these films and their makers have been the target of increasing state control and intervention.

Ahmed Ghazal, drawing upon his own background in film-making, looks at the way in which Egyptian film has shaped, and been shaped by, the events leading up to and beyond Egypt's 2011 revolution. Drawing on interviews with protagonists in the industry, analysis of films, and archival research, he analyses the critical issues affecting the political economy of the industry. He also explores the technological developments of independent productions and the cinematic themes of dictatorship, poverty, corruption and police brutality that have accompanied the people's calls for freedom - and the counterrevolution that has tried to suppress them.

Ahmed Ghazal was awarded a PhD in Media and Communication Studies from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2018. He has an extensive filmography, including having directed Bey’oulo (2011), winner of the Tropfest Arabia Short Film Festival.

1. Introduction
2. International Cinema and Revolutions
3. Historicising Egyptian Cinema
4. The Crisis of the Egyptian Film Industry
5. Representing the National Crisis: Films Before the Revolution
6. Constructing Cultural Memory: Fiction and Documentary Films
7. Technology and Revolution: The Continuity of ‘Independent’ Films
8. Conclusion
9. Bibliography
10. Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.05.2022
Zusatzinfo	13 b/w illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9780755635429 / 9780755635429
Zustand	Neuware