Making Film in Egypt (eBook)

How Labor, Technology, and Mediation Shape the Industry

Chihab El Khachab (Autor)

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2021 | ePub
302 Seiten
The American University in Cairo Press (Verlag)
978-1-64903-043-6 (ISBN)

Infos

An ethnographic study of the Egyptian film industry The enormous influence of the Egyptian film industry on popular culture and collective imagination across the Arab world is widely acknowledged, but little is known about its concrete workings behind the scenes. Making Film in Egypt provides a fascinating glimpse into the lived reality of commercial film production in today's Cairo, with an emphasis on labor hierarchies, production practices, and the recent transition to digital technologies. Drawing on in-depth interviews and participant observation among production workers, on-set technicians, and artistic crew members, Chihab El Khachab sets out to answer a simple question: how do filmmakers deal with the unpredictable future of their films? The answer unfolds through a journey across the industry's political economy, its labor processes, its technological infrastructure, its logistical and artistic work, and its imagined audiences. The result is a complex and nuanced portrait of the Arab world's largest film industry, rich in ethnographic detail and theoretical innovations in media anthropology, media studies, and Middle East anthropology.

Autor

Chihab El Khachab is a Junior Research Fellow in Anthropology in Christ Church, University of Oxford in England.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.3.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 17 b/w illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
• Schlagworte: Anthropology • Arab world culture • artistic work • Chihab El Khachab • collective imagination • commercial film production • Cultural Production • Digital technologies • Egptian film industry • enthnographic study of film in Egypt • Ethnographic Research • Ethnographic Study • ethnography • Film industry economics • Film industry politics • film in Egypt • Film Studies • Imagined audiences • in-depth interviews • Labor hierarchies • Logistical work • Media Anthropology • Media Studies • Mesa • Middle East studies • participant observation • popular culture • Production practices
• ISBN-10: 1-64903-043-6 / 1649030436
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64903-043-6 / 9781649030436