Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt Abdelfattah Heba Arafa
Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt Abdelfattah Heba Arafa This book studies the rise of cinema in colonial Egypt as a supplemental secular public sphere that is not anti-religion. It…
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Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt Abdelfattah Heba Arafa
This book studies the rise of cinema in colonial Egypt as a supplemental secular public sphere that is not anti-religion. It inquires about the representations of modernity in films produced during the time and the place filmmakers assigned to Islam in these representations. To this end, it investigates the reception of film by three centers of powers: the colonial authorities, the Muslim clergy, and the Cairene bourgeoisie.
The result is a story of survival and coexistence told through the lens of cinema as modern art and popular culture negotiating its overt and covert censorship in the public sphere, despite colonization and
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