Research Catalog

Title

Encyclopedia of Arab women filmmakers / Rebecca Hillauer ; translated by Allison Brown, Deborah Cohen, and Nancy Joyce.

Author

Hillauer, Rebecca.

Publication

Cairo ; New York : American University in Cairo Press, c2005.

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Details

Description

vii, 484 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Arab women filmmakers: Who are they? What drives them? What are their experiences in a male-dominated profession? How do they function within the contexts - and constraints - of patriarchal societies? The answers are complex and sometimes surprising, as complex and surprising as the vastly different films these women direct. In this unprecedented book, Rebecca Hillauer assembles a comprehensive and penetrating look into the history of Arab women's filmmaking, as well as the political and social background of the countries - Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Algeria, among others - from which these artists emerged." "In addition to the biographies, filmographies, and discussions of their most important works, lively, in-depth interviews allow us to hear from the filmmakers themselves. Collectively, these women, who hail from a wide range of professional, religious, and social backgrounds, provide a varied and vivid picture of what it means to work in creative and journalistic fields in the modern Arab world. For Hillauer, the subject of a film, its genesis, and the personal story of the artist who created it reveal far more than a particular approach to cinematography. Arab women filmmakers and their main characters (who are often semi-autobiographical) not only afford us a look at seldom-seen facets of Arab societies, they personify an alternative women's 'model, ' one that is far removed from western cliches."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

• Freiräume, Lebensträume. English
• University press scholarship online.

Alternative Title

Freiräume, Lebensträume.

Subjects

• Women motion picture producers and directors > Arab countries
• Geschichte 1930-2000
• Motion picture producers and directors > Arab countries > Biography
• Verzeichnis
• Interviews
• Biographies > Dictionaries
• Women motion picture producers and directors > Arab countries > Biography > Dictionaries
• Women motion picture producers and directors > Arab countries > Interviews
• Motion pictures > Arab countries
• Women in motion pictures

Genre/Form

• Biographies – Dictionaries
• Interviews
• Verzeichnis.

Note

• Originally published in German Freiraume, Lebenstraume, 2001.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 459-468) and indexes.
• Includes filmographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Egypt -- The Mashreq: Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Yemen -- The Maghreb: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia -- Other countries -- Other filmmakers.

ISBN

• 9774249437
• 9789774249433

OCLC

• 64385808
• SCSB-11019939

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library