Screens and Veils
Title | Screens and Veils PDF eBook |
Author | Florence Martin |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 287 |
Release | 2011-10-13 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0253005655 |
An analysis of seven films by female directors from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various meanings of the Arabic term hijab (veil, curtain, screen). Martin analyzes these films on their own theoretical terms, developing the notion of “transvergence” to examine how Maghrebi women’s cinema is flexible, playful, and transgressive in its themes, aesthetics, narratives, and modes of address. These are distinctive films that traverse multiple cultures, both borrowing from and resisting the discourses these cultures propose. “Produced by a diverse group of women filmmakers—Assia Djebar, Farida Benlyazid, Yamina Bachir-Chouikh, Raja Amari, Naida El Fani, Yasmine Kassari, and Selma Baccar—these movies reflect the Algerian civil war, colonialism, patriarchy, undocumented immigrants, sexuality, identity, and the social mores that have dominated the political, social, and economic spheres in the Maghreb. . . . This book inscribes a new chapter in women filmmaking on the Maghreb; it makes an important contribution to cinema, literature, and cultural studies. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” —Choice “An excellent presentation and analysis of women’s filmmaking from North Africa. . . . Its attention to contemporary film theory is matched by its presentation of materials derived from Martin’s interviews with filmmakers, interviews that reveal a sincere engagement with the filmmakers and a deep understanding of contemporary production. In short, this is a fine book that will be of interest to anyone working on or teaching film and gender studies in North African and Middle Eastern studies, and beyond.” —Journal of Arabic Literature, Issue 44, 2013
Screens, Veils, and Space Divided
Title | Screens, Veils, and Space Divided PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Gross |
Publisher | |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Ceramic sculpture |
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Screens and Veils
Title | Screens and Veils PDF eBook |
Author | Florence Martin |
Publisher | Indiana University Press |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 2011-10-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0253223415 |
Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various meanings of the Arabic term hijab (veil, curtain, screen). Martin analyzes these films on their own theoretical terms, developing the notion of "transvergence" to examine how Maghrebi women's cinema is flexible, playful, and transgressive in its themes, aesthetics, narratives, and modes of address. These are distinctive films that traverse multiple cultures, both borrowing from and resisting the discourses these cultures propose.
Veils, Screens and the Tectonic
Title | Veils, Screens and the Tectonic PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence D. Oleniak |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | |
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Toward an Anthropology of Screens
Title | Toward an Anthropology of Screens PDF eBook |
Author | Mauro Carbone |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2023-11-05 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 3031308166 |
This book shows that screens don’t just distribute the visible and the invisible, but have always mediated our body's relationships with the physical and anthropological-cultural environment. By combining a series of historical-genealogical reconstructions going back to prehistoric times with the analysis of present and near-future technologies, the authors show that screens have always incorporated not only the hiding/showing functions but also the protecting/exposing ones, as the Covid-19 pandemic retaught us. The intertwining of these functions allows the authors to criticize the mainstream ideas of images as inseparable from screens, of words as opposed to images, and of what they call “Transparency 2.0” ideology, which currently dominates our socio-political life. Moreover, they show how wearable technologies don’t approximate us to a presumed disappearance of screens but seem to draw a circular pathway back to using our bodies as screens. This raises new relational, ethical, and political questions, which this book helps to illuminate.
Roodscreens and Roodlofts
Title | Roodscreens and Roodlofts PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Bligh Bond |
Publisher | |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Church architecture |
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Screens and Galleries in English Churches
Title | Screens and Galleries in English Churches PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Bond |
Publisher | |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Church architecture |
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