Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema
While Middle Eastern culture does not tend to be associated with laughter and levity in the global imagination, humor-often satirical-has long been a staple of mainstream Arabic film. In Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema, editors Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman shed light on this tradition, as well as humor and laughter motivated by other intent-including parody, irony, the absurd, burlesque, and dark comedy. Contributors trace the proliferation of humor in contemporary Middle Eastern cinema in the works of individual directors and from the perspectives of genre, national cinemas, and diasporic cinema. Humor in Middle Eas…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Rahman, Najat (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8143-3937-4
- EAN: 9780814339374
- Produktnummer: 16446947
- Verlag: Wayne State University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 292 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 427 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 427
Über den Autor
Gayatri Devi is assistant professor of English at Lock Haven University, Pennsylvania. Najat Rahman is an associate professor of comparative literature at the University of Montreal. She is author of Literary Disinheritance: The Writing of Home in the Works of Mahmoud Darwish and Assia Djebar . She is co-editor of Exile's Poet, Mahmoud Darwish: Critical Essays .
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