New Tunisian cinema allegories of resistance / Robert Lang.

Author/creator Lang, Robert, 1957-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Columbia University Press, [2014]
Descriptionxxii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Subjects

SeriesFilm and culture
Contents The nation, the state, and the cinema -- "The freedom to be different, to choose your own life": Man of ashes (Nouri Bouzid, 1986) -- "Laughter in the dark": sexuality and the police state in Halfaouine (F©♭rid Boughedir, 1990) -- Sexual allegories of national identity in Bezness (Nouri Bouzid, 1992) -- The colonizer and the colonized in the silences of the palace (Moufida Tlatli, 1994) -- "It takes two of us to discover truth": Essa©¿da (Mohamed Zran, 1996) -- "It takes a lot of unruly individuals to make a free people": Bedwin Hacker (Nadia el Fani, 2003) -- Inventing the postcolonial nation/constructing a usable past: the TV is coming (Moncef Dhouib, 2006) -- "Destiny answers the people's call for life, darkness will be dispelled, and chains will break".
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 353-367) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2013038574
ISBN9780231165068 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780231165075 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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