Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Retrospective. Labor, Process, and Technology -- Mediating Futures -- What Comes Next -- Inside Immobilia -- 6. Industry -- Into the New Millennium -- An Interpersonal Political Economy -- Local Models of the Industry -- "Let's See ..." -- 2. Process -- Labor Hierarchies -- Apprenticeship -- Operational Sequence -- Ways of Making Films -- Paper, Phone, Laptop -- 3. Reserves -- On Tiknulujya -- Commodity-Objects -- Reserves -- Work Time and Technology -- Time and Budget -- 4. Coordination -- Budgeting -- Scheduling -- Transportation -- Avoiding Delays -- Being Available and Being Faultless -- Logistical Mediation -- Pre-light -- 5. Visualization -- Skill, Authority, and Vision -- Scouting -- Image Composition -- Sound Work -- Visual Mediation -- First Cut -- 6. Enchantment -- Imagined Audiences -- Enchantment -- The Unspoken Audience -- Empirical Audiences -- The Afterparty -- Retrospective.
Summary:
The enormous influence of the Egyptian film industry on popular culture and collective imagination across the Arab world is widely acknowledged, but little is known about its concrete workings behind the scenes. 'Making Film in Egypt' provides a fascinating glimpse into the lived reality of commercial film production in today?s Cairo, with an emphasis on labor hierarchies, production practices, and the recent transition to digital technologies. Drawing on in-depth interviews and participant observation among production workers, on-set technicians, and artistic crew members, Chihab El Khachab sets out to answer a simple question: how do filmmakers deal with the unpredictable future of their films? The answer unfolds through a journey across the industry's political economy, its labor processes, its technological infrastructure, its logistical and artistic work, and its imagined audiences. The result is a complex and nuanced portrait of the Arab world's largest film industry, rich in ethnographic detail and theoretical innovations in media anthropology, media studies, and Middle East anthropology.
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