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1 online resource |
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Introduction: imperatives of wonder, or moving beyond the Battle of Algiers -- Sight lines. Doubling back, moving on: Farida Benlyazid's A door to the sky -- Twilight dawns: Mohamed Chouikh's The Citadel (1989), Youssef (1994), and Ark of the desert -- Sand castles: Nacer Khemir's The wanderers of the desert (1986), the Lost neckring of the dove (1991), and Baba Aziz: the prince who contemplated his soul -- Hero complex. For the record: Nabil Ayouch's Mektoub -- Off road: Lyes Salem's Masquerades -- Signal crossings: Nadia El Fani's Bedwin hacker -- Scan backward/scan forward. Vacancies: Tariq Teguia's Rome rather than you -- Hooking up: Faouzi Bensaïdi's WWW: what a wonderful world -- Breaking out: Nejib Belkadhi's VHS Kahloucha -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
'Maghrebs in Motion' analyzes nine key films and film cycles from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia made in the twenty-five years leading up to the Arab Spring. This study shows how each film draws on diverse cinematic and sociopolitical legacies to prefigure and capture the shifts of perception and relation that so stunned onlookers worldwide when nonideological protests in Tunisia overthrew the long-standing autocratic government |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Africa, North -- History
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Motion pictures -- Algeria -- History
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Motion pictures -- Morocco -- History
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Motion pictures -- Tunisia -- History
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Motion pictures
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Africa, North -- In motion pictures.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001714
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North Africa
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Algeria
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Morocco
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Tunisia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190262594 |
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0190262591 |
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