Surviving Images: Cinema, War, and Cultural Memory in the Middle East

by Kamran Rastegar

Book Overview

Surviving Images explores the prominent role of cinema in the development of cultural memory around war and conflict in colonial and postcolonial contexts. It does so through a study of three historical eras: the colonial period, the national-independence struggle, and the postcolonial. Beginning with a study of British colonial cinema on the Sudan, then exploring anti-colonial cinema in Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia, followed by case studies of films...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199390177
• ISBN13: 9780199390175
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"