Revolutionary Melodrama: Popular Film and Civic Identity in Nasser's Egypt
Title | Revolutionary Melodrama: Popular Film and Civic Identity in Nasser's Egypt |
Publication Type | Book |
Year of Publication | 2002 |
Authors | Gordon, Joel |
Number of Pages | 300 |
Publisher | Middle East Documentation Center |
City | Chicago |
Abstract | Revolutionary Melodrama explores intersections between cinema and politics during the Nasser era, a period in which a military regime embarked upon the construction of a new civic identity for an independent Egypt. The way in which filmmakers participated in this venture provides the focal point, with their cultural production as the central texts which both shaped and were shaped by an emerging sense of a new Egypt. With the blessing of a "revolutionary" regime, filmmakers began to explore issues of social inequity, colonial and feudal exploitation, changing gender roles, religious and cultural traditions and, finally, the disappointments of the revolutionary project itself. [WorldCat.] |
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- Historiography
- Theory & Military
- Theory & Gender
- Militarism
- Military & Military Systems
- Military & Society
- Military & Gender
- War & Politics
- War & Nation/Nation-building
- War & Nation/Nation-building & Gender
- War, Politics/Citizenship & Gender
- War & International Politics
- War & Colonialism/Imperialism
- War & Anti-colonial Struggle
- Human Rights
- War Mobilization
- War & Men
- War & Women
- War, Home Front & Gender
- War, Culture & Gender
- War & Cultural Representations of Gender
- Popular Culture
- Postwar Societies & Gender
- War Memories & Gender
- War, Violence & Gender
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