Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt 1st Edition by Heba Arafa Abdelfattah ISBN 9781399520751 139952075X

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ISBN 10: 139952075X
ISBN 13: 9781399520751
Author: Heba Arafa Abdelfattah

Explores the formative years of Egyptian cinema (1919–52) to contest the contradiction between Islam and innovation
* Discusses over 30 feature films, drawing on English and Arabic archival material including records of the British Foreign Office, the Egyptian National Archive, diaries of filmmakers and film censors, magazines and newspapers, and Islamic legal opinions on theatre and cinema
* Sets out a dialogic and innovative approach to studying modernity and Islam as interdependent lived experiences
* Steps outside the Orientalist formalist approach, which subjects subaltern cinema to the Hollywood standards of film language
* Writes a compelling account of Egyptian cinema as creative imagination and an Islamic popular culture shaped by Muslims and Non-Muslims
This book studies the rise of cinema in colonial Egypt as a supplemental secular public sphere that is not anti-religion. To this end, it investigates the reception of film by three centres of powers: the colonial authorities, the Muslim clergy and the Cairene bourgeoisie. It inquires about the representations of modernity in films produced during the time and the place filmmakers assigned to Islam in these representations. The result is a story of survival and coexistence told through the lens of cinema as modern art and popular culture negotiating its overt and covert censorship in the public sphere, despite colonisation and war.

Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt 1st Edition Table of contents:

1 Introduction: Basic Concepts
2 Regulating the Amour-propre of the Colonized
3 Protecting the Amour-propre of Islam
4 Caricaturing Dominant Modernity (Tafarnug)
5 Lampooning Residual Modernity (Ta’ssul)
6 Celebrating Emergent Modernity (Asala)
Bibliography
Index

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