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Author:

Gauch, Suzanne, 1965- author.

Title:

Maghrebs in motion : North African cinema in nine movements / Suzanne Gauch.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Motion pictures--Africa, North--History.
Motion pictures--Algeria--History.
Motion pictures--Morocco--History.
Motion pictures--Tunisia--History.
Africa, North--In motion pictures.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-225) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : imperatives of wonder, or moving beyond the Battle of Algiers -- Sight lines. Doubling back, moving on : Farida Benlyazid's A door to the sky -- Twilight dawns : Mohamed Chouikh's The Citadel (1989), Youssef (1994), and Ark of the desert -- Sand castles : Nacer Khemir's The wanderers of the desert (1986), the Lost neckring of the dove (1991), and Baba Aziz: the prince who contemplated his soul -- Hero complex. For the record : Nabil Ayouch's Mektoub -- Off road : Lyes Salem's Masquerades -- Signal crossings : Nadia El Fani's Bedwin hacker -- Scan backward/scan forward. Vacancies : Tariq Teguia's Rome rather than you -- Hooking up : Faouzi Bensa©di's WWW: what a wonderful world -- Breaking out : Nejib Belkadhi's VHS Kahloucha -- Epilogue.

ISBN:

0190262575
9780190262570
0190262583
9780190262587

OCLC:

(OCoLC)910310011

LCCN:

2015018326

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)