New Tunisian Cinema : : Allegories of Resistance / / Robert Lang.
Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas. For many, Tunisia appeared to be a model of equipoise between "East" and "West," and yet, during Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's presidency, from 1987 to 2011, the country became the most repressive state i...
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| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Film and Culture Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter One. The nation, the State, and the Cinema
- Chapter Two. "The freedom to be different, to choose your own life": Man of Ashes (Nouri Bouzid, 1986)
- Chapter Three. Laughter in the dark: Sexuality and the Police State in Halfaouine (Férid Boughedir, 1990)
- Chapter Four. Sexual allegories of national identity: Bezness (Nouri Bouzid, 1992)
- Chapter Five. The Colonizer and the Colonized: The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli, 1994)
- Chapter Six. "it takes two of us to discover truth": Essaïda (Mohamed Zran, 1996)
- Chapter Seven. "It takes a lot of unruly individuals to make a free people": Bedwin Hacker (Nadia el Fani, 2002)
- Chapter Eight. Inventing the Postcolonial nation/Constructing a usable Past: The TV Is Coming (Moncef Dhouib, 2006)
- Chapter Nine. "Destiny answers the people's call for life, darkness will be dispelled, and chains will break"
- Notes
- Filmography
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
- Backmatter