Bibliograph

Screens and veils, Maghrebi women's cinema, Florence Martin

Type

Label

Screens and veils, Maghrebi women's cinema, Florence Martin

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Screens and veils

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Florence Martin

Series statement

New directions in national cinemas

Sub title

Maghrebi women's cinema

Summary

Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various meanings of the Arabic term hijab (veil, curtain, screen). Martin analyzes these films on their own theoretical terms, developing the notion of "transvergence" to examine how Maghrebi women's cinema is flexible, playful, and transgressive in its themes, aesthetics, narratives, and modes of address. These are distinctive films that traverse multiple cultures, both borrowing from and resisting the discourses these cultures propose

Target audience

adult

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