Martin, Florence, 1959-

Screens and veils Maghrebi women's cinema / [electronic resource] : Florence Martin. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2011. - x, 271 p. - New directions in national cinemas . - New directions in national cinemas. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overture: Maghrebi women's transvergent cinema -- Transnational feminist storytellers: Shahrazad, Assia, and Farida. Assia Djebar's transvergent Nuba: the Nuba of the women of Mount Chenoua (Algeria, 1978) -- Farida Benlyazid's initiation narrative: A door to the sky (Morocco, 1988) -- Transvergent screens. Yamina Bachir-Chouikh's transvergent echoes: Rachida (Algeria, 2002) -- Raja Amari's screen of the haptic: Red satin (Tunisia, 2002) -- Nadia El Fani's multiple screens: Bedwin hacker (Tunisia, 2002) -- From Dunyazad to transvergent audiences. Yasmine Kassari's "burning" screens: The sleeping child (Morocco, 2004) -- Selma Baccar's transvergent spectatorship: Flower of oblivion (Tunisia, 2006) -- Coda.


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Motion pictures--History--Africa, North--20th century.
Motion pictures--History--Africa, North--21st century.
Women motion picture producers and directors--Africa, North.
Motion pictures--Social aspects--Africa, North.
Women in motion pictures.


Africa, North--In motion pictures.


Electronic books.

PN1993.5.A35 / M37 2011eb

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