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Book SynopsisRepresentations of Palestine in Egyptian Cinema: Politics of (In)visibility traces how Egyptian cinema has represented Palestine across three paradigmatic moments in modern Egyptian history: in the years around the 1952 Revolution, which saw Egypt's transition from monarchy to republic; in the wake of the 1967 Defeat, which signaled the end of Nasser's pan-Arabist project; and around the turn of the twenty-first century, at which point Egypt had not only normalized relations with Israel but integrated into the neoliberal capitalist economy. Integrating textual analysis with politico-historical contextualization, the book investigates Egypt's popular commitment and changing foreign policy toward the Palestinian issue, arguing that varied allegorical figurations of Palestine in Egyptian cinema appear as critical reactions to the political status quo. To this end, the book's chapters analyze, respectively, generic conventions of melodrama, social realism, and transnational cinema
Table of ContentsList of Figures – Preface – Acknowledgments – List of Abbreviations – Introduction – The Emergence of Palestine in the Egyptian Melodrama – Resisting the Limits of Egyptian Cinema: Pan-Arab Representation of Palestine – Egyptian Cinema in a Transnational Context: Neoliberalism and Palestine Solidarity Cinema – Conclusion – Filmography – Bibliography – Index.
