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Screens and Veils

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Description for Screens and Veils Paperback. Discusses the cinematic vision of North African women's directors Series: New Directions in National Cinemas. Num Pages: 288 pages, 25 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1HB; APFA; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 424.

Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various meanings of the Arabic term hijab (veil, curtain, screen). Martin analyzes these films on their own theoretical terms, developing the notion of "transvergence" to examine how Maghrebi women's cinema is flexible, playful, and transgressive in its themes, aesthetics, narratives, and modes of address. These are distinctive films that traverse multiple cultures, both ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
New Directions in National Cinemas
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253223418
SKU
V9780253223418
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About Florence Martin
Florence Martin is Professor of French and Francophone Literature and Cinema at Goucher College and Associate Editor of Studies in French Cinema. She is author of Bessie Smith, of De la Guyane à la diaspora africaine (with Isabelle Favre), and of A vous de voir! (with Maryse Fauvel and Stéphanie Martin).

Reviews for Screens and Veils
Florence Martin's Screens and Veils . . . manages to effectively shed a light on the diverse yet underrepresented cinema of Maghrebi women.5.1 2014
Transnational Cinemas
'Screens and Veils' provides an excellent presentation and analysis of women's filmmaking from North Africa. . . Its attention to contemporary film theory is matched by its presentation of materials derived from ... Read more

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