Revolutionary melodrama popular film and civic identity in Nasser's Egypt Joel Gordon.
Material type: TextSeries: Chicago studies on the Middle EastPublication details: Chicago : Middle East Documentation Center, 2002.Description: 300 p. : ports. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0970819900
- PN 1993.5 .E3 G67 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-288) and index. Includes filmography (p. 288-292). Contents: 1. Playing to the people : studios, stars, and social texts -- 2. God and the censor : history and politics in revolutionary film -- 3. Revolutionary melodrama : torch songs and other tropes -- 4. Free to be "bad" : the revolution's new woman onscreen -- 5. New peasants, old ways : tradition and nation in Nasserist films -- 6. Unhappy endings : the rise and fall of Nasserist cinema -- 7. Nostalgia in black-and-white : Nasser's streets and public memory.
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