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Author:

Martin, Florence, 1959-

Title:

Screens and veils : Maghrebi women's cinema / Florence Martin.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

x, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Motion pictures--Africa, North--History--20th century.
Motion pictures--Africa, North--History--21st century.
Women motion picture producers and directors--Africa, North.
Motion pictures--Social aspects--Africa, North.
Women in motion pictures.
Africa, North--In motion pictures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Overture: Maghrebi women's transvergent cinema -- Transnational feminist storytellers: Shahrazad, Assia, and Farida. Assia Djebar's transvergent Nuba: the Nuba of the women of Mount Chenoua (Algeria, 1978) -- Farida Benlyazid's initiation narrative: A door to the sky (Morocco, 1988) -- Transvergent screens. Yamina Bachir-Chouikh's transvergent echoes: Rachida (Algeria, 2002) -- Raja Amari's screen of the haptic: Red satin (Tunisia, 2002) -- Nadia El Fani's multiple screens: Bedwin hacker (Tunisia, 2002) -- From Dunyazad to transvergent audiences. Yasmine Kassari's "burning" screens: The sleeping child (Morocco, 2004) -- Selma Baccar's transvergent spectatorship: Flower of oblivion (Tunisia, 2006) -- Coda.

Series:

New directions in national cinemas.

ISBN:

0253223415 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780253223418 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0253356687 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780253356680 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)692291406

LCCN:

2011006527

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)