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  1. Lebanese cinema
    imagining the civil war and beyond
    Author: Khatib, Lina
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  I.B. Tauris, London [u.a.] ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    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... more

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    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, Beirut", Ghassan Salhab's "Terra Incognita", and Ziad Doueiri's "West Beirut". In so doing, she re-examines the im.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781441629661; 1441629661; 1845116275; 9781845116279; 1845116283; 9781845116286; 9780857714282; 0857714287
    RVK Categories: AP 59674
    Series: Tauris world cinema series
    Subjects: Film; Zweiter Libanonkrieg <2006, Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 214 pages), Illustrations
    Notes:

    Includes filmography

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-205) and indexes