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Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond
Khatib
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Description for Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond
Hardback. Deals with Lebanese cinema and its links with politics and national identity. This book examines how Lebanon is imagined in such films as Jocelyn Saab's "Once Upon a Time, Beirut", Ghassan Salhab's "Terra Incognita", and Ziad Doueiri's "West Beirut". Series: Tauris World Cinema Series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 25 integrated b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FBL; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 510.
Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 1975 have been about this war. Lina Khatib takes 1975 Beirut as her starting point, and takes us right through to today for this, the first major book on Lebanese cinema and its links with politics and national identity.She examines how Lebanon is imagined in such films as Jocelyn Saab's "Once Upon a Time, Beirut", Ghassan Salhab's "Terra Incognita", and Ziad Doueiri's "West Beirut". In so doing, she re-examines the importance of cinema ... Read more
Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 1975 have been about this war. Lina Khatib takes 1975 Beirut as her starting point, and takes us right through to today for this, the first major book on Lebanese cinema and its links with politics and national identity.She examines how Lebanon is imagined in such films as Jocelyn Saab's "Once Upon a Time, Beirut", Ghassan Salhab's "Terra Incognita", and Ziad Doueiri's "West Beirut". In so doing, she re-examines the importance of cinema ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Series
Tauris World Cinema Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845116279
SKU
V9781845116279
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About Khatib
Lina Khatib is Lecturer in World Cinema, Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author of 'Filming the Modern Middle East' (I.B. Tauris 2006).
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