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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “chris lippard”
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  • Cinema of the Arab World

    Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Terri Ginsberg, Chris Lippard ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume engages new films and modes of scholarly research in Arab cinema, and older, often neglected films and critical topics, while theorizing their structural relationship to contemporary developments in the Arab world. The volume considers the relationship of Arab cinema to transnational film production, distribution, and exhibition, in turn recontextualizing the works of acknowledged as ... Read more

    $167.99 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema

    by Terri Ginsberg, Chris Lippard ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    To a substantial degree cinema has served to define the perceived character of the peoples and nations of the Middle East. This book covers the production and exhibition of the cinema of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabi, Yemen, Kuwait, and Bahrain, as well as the non-Arab states of Turkey and Iran, and the Jewish state ... Read more

    $231.99 CAD

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  • Syria Speaks

    Art and Culture from the Frontline

    Edited by Malu Halasa, Zaher Omareen, Nawara Mahfoud ...
    In Syria, culture has become the critical line of defence against tyranny. Villagers have joined the cultural frontline alongside urban intellectuals, artists, writers and filmmakers and to create art and literature that challenge official narratives. With contributions by over fifty artists and writers, both established and emerging, Syria Speaks explores the explosion of creativity and free ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Andrei Tarkovsky

    Elements of Cinema

    by Robert Bird ...
    The films of Andrei Tarkovsky have been revered as ranking on a par with the masterpieces of Russia's novelists and composers. His work, from films such as Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, Nostalgia and Sacrifice, has had an enormous influence on the style of contemporary European film, with its open narrative structures and slow, pensive mood; yet Tarkovsky has remained an ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Syria from Reform to Revolt

    Volume 2: Culture, Society, and Religion

    by Max Weiss, Donatella Della Ratta, Shayna Silverstein, Laura Ruiz de Elvira, Andreas Bandak, Thomas Pierret ...
    Series series Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
    As Syria’s anti-authoritarian uprising and subsequent civil war have left the country in ruins, the need for understanding the nation’s complex political and cultural realities remains urgent. The second of a two-volume series, Syria from Reform to Revolt: Culture, Society, and Religion draws together closely observed, critical and historicized analyses, giving vital insights into Syrian society ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Palestinian Village Histories

    Geographies of the Displaced

    by Rochelle Davis ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    Throughout modern-day Israel, over four hundred Palestinian villages were depopulated in the 1947-1949 war. With houses mostly destroyed, mosques and churches put to other uses, and cemeteries plowed under, Palestinian communities were left geographically dispossessed. Palestinians have since carried their village names, memories, and possessions with them into the diaspora, transforming their ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Iran Reframed

    Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic

    by Narges Bajoghli ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    An inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic.More than half of Iran's citizens were not alive at the time of the 1979 Revolution. Now entering its fifth decade in power, the Iranian regime faces the paradox of any successful revolution: how to transmit the commitments of its political project to the next generation. New media ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • In the Wake of the Poetic

    Palestinian Artists After Darwish

    by Najat Rahman ...
    Heralding a new period of creativity, In the Wake of the Poetic explores the aesthetics and politics of Palestinian cultural expression in the last two decades. As it increasingly gains a significant presence on the international scene, much of Palestinian art owes a debt to Mahmoud Darwish, one of the finest contemporary poets, and to Palestinian writers of his generation. Rahman maps the immense ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4

    The Globalizing Era, 1984–2010

    by Hamid Naficy ...
    Hamid Naficy is one of the world's leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran's peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • A Brief Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature

    by David Tresilian ...
    Modern Arabic literature remains little known and poorly understood despite growing curiosity among European readers. This brief introduction offers a unique overview, focusing on developments over the last fifty years. It provides a guide to the literary landscape, indicating the major landmarks in the shape of authors, ideas and debates. The picture that emerges shows that the literature of the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 2

    The Industrializing Years, 1941–1978

    by Hamid Naficy ...
    Hamid Naficy is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran’s peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Umm Kulthum

    Artistic Agency and the Shaping of an Arab Legend, 1967–2007

    by Laura Lohman ...
    How an extraordinary woman shaped her career and legacy through warIn 1967 Egypt and the Arab world suffered a devastating defeat by Israel in the Six-Day War. Though long past the age at which most singers would have retired, the sexagenarian Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum launched a multifaceted response to the defeat that not only sustained her career, but also expanded her international fame and ... Read more

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