Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers Book Description
Arab women filmmakers: Who are they? What drives them? What are their experiences in a male-dominated profession? How do they function within the contexts - and constraints - of patriarchal societies? The answers are complex and sometimes surprising, as complex and surprising as the vastly different films these women direct. In this unprecedented book, Rebecca Hillauer assembles a comprehensive and penetrating look into the history of Arab women's filmmaking, as well as the political and social background of the countries - Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Algeria, among others - from which these artists emerged.In addition to the biographies, filmographies, and discussions of their most important works, lively, in-depth interviews allow us to hear from the filmmakers themselves. Collectively, these women, who hail from a wide range of professional, religious, and social backgrounds, provide a varied and vivid picture of what it means to work in creative and journalistic fields in the modern Arab world. For Hillauer, the subject of a film, its genesis, and the personal story of the artist who created it reveal far more than a particular approach to cinematography. Arab women filmmakers and their main characters (who are often semi-autobiographical) not only afford us a look at seldom-seen facets of Arab societies, they personify an alternative women's 'model, ' one that is far removed from western cliches. Broad in scope, and rich in insight, Arab Women Filmmakers is a must read for cineastes as well as students of film, feminism, and the Middle East.
About the Author :
Rebecca Hillauer has contributed to Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers as an author.
Rebecca Hillauer is a freelance print and radio journalist who lives in Germany.
Allison Brown has contributed to Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers as a translator.
Klaus J. Bade was born in 1944 in Sierentz, Alsace-Lorraine. He is chair of modern history and director of the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) at Osnabruck University. He has held visiting professorships at Harvard and Oxford and fellowships at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He won the Philip Morris Research Award in 2001 and is a member of numerous scientific organizations, commissions and advisory boards as well as head of German and international research projects. He is co-editor of several book series and j
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The book Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers by Rebecca Hillauer, Allison Brown, Deborah Cohen
(author) is published or distributed by American University in Cairo Press [9774249437, 9789774249433].
This particular edition was published on or around 2005-12-1 date.
Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers has Hardcover binding and this format has 484 number of pages of content for use.
This book by Rebecca Hillauer, Allison Brown, Deborah Cohen
is written in English language.
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