Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814339379 ISBN 13 : 9780814339374

Editeur : Wayne State University Press, 2014

Synopsis

While Middle Eastern culture does not tend to be associated with laughter and levity in the global imagination, humor--often satirical--has long been a staple of mainstream Arabic film. In Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema, editors Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman shed light on this tradition, as well as humor and laughter motivated by other intent--including parody, irony, the absurd, burlesque, and dark comedy. Contributors trace the proliferation of humor in contemporary Middle Eastern cinema in the works of individual directors and from the perspectives of genre, national cinemas, and diasporic cinema.

Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema explores what humor theorists have identified as an "emancipatory," "liberatory," even "revolutionary" function to humor. Among the questions contributors ask are: How does Middle Eastern cinema and media highlight the stakes and place of humor in art and in life? What is its relation to the political? Can humor in cinematic art be emancipatory? What are its limits for its intervention or transformation? Contributors examine the region's masterful auteurs, such as Abbas Kiarostami, Youssef Chahine, and Elia Suleiman and cover a range of cinematic settings, including Egypt, Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey. They also trace diasporic issues in the distinctive cinema of India and Pakistan.

This insightful collection will introduce readers to a variety of contemporary Middle Eastern cinema that has attracted little critical notice. Scholars of cinema and media studies as well as Middle Eastern cultural history will appreciate this introduction to a complex and fascinating cinema.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Gayatri Devi is assistant professor of English at Lock Haven University, Pennsylvania.

Najat Rahman is associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Montreal. She is author of Literary Disinheritance: The Writing of Home in the Work of Mahmoud Darwish and Assia Djebar. She is co-editor of Mahmoud Darwish, Exile's Poet: Critical Essays.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wayne State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814339379
• ISBN 13: 9780814339374
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Éditeur: Devi Gayatri, Rahman Najat
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible