Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond

by Lina Khatib

Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 1975 have been about this war. Lina Khatib takes 1975 Beirut as her starting point, and takes us right through to today for this, the first major book on Lebanese cinema and its links with politics and national identity.She examines how Lebanon is imagined in such films as Jocelyn Saab's "Once Upon a Time,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845116283
• ISBN13: 9781845116286
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"