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Title:

Humor in Middle Eastern cinema / edited by Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman.

Publisher:

Wayne State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

vi, 282 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Motion pictures--Middle East.
Wit and humor in motion pictures.
Motion pictures.
Wit and humor in motion pictures.
Middle East.

Other Authors:

Devi, Gayatri.
Rahman, Najat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index. Filmography: pages 257-258.

Contents:

Humor, loss, and the possibility for politics in recent Palestinian cinema / Najat Rahman -- Strategies of subversion in Ben Ali's Tunisia : allegory and satire in Moncef Dhouib's The TV is coming / Robert Lang -- Satiric traversals in the comedy of Mehrān Modiri : space, irony, and national allegory on Iranian television / Cyrus Ali Zargar -- Ethnic humor, stereotypes, and cultural power in Israeli cinema / Elise Burton -- The laughter of Youssef Chahine / Najat Rahman -- Comedic mediations : war and genre in The outcasts / Somy Kim -- Humor and the cinematic sublime in Kiarostami's The wind will carry us / Gayatri Devi -- America the oppressively funny : humor and anti-Americanisms in modern Turkish cinema / Perin Gurel -- Laughter across borders : the case of the Bollywood film Tere Bin Laden / Mara Matta.

Series:

Contemporary approaches to film and media series

ISBN:

0814339379
9780814339374

OCLC:

(OCoLC)870987790

Locations:

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

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)