Film and counterculture in the 2011 Egyptian uprising 1st ed.

Author

• Taha, Amir

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030689001

Series

Subject(s)

• COUNTERCULTURE
• MOTION PICTURES
• SOCIAL CONDITIONS

Notes

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Abstract

This book examines how film articulates countercultural flows in the context of the Egyptian Revolution. The book interrogates the gap between radical politics and radical aesthetics by analyzing counterculture as a form, drawing upon Egyptian films produced between 2010 and 2016. The work offers a definition of counterculture which liberates the term from its Western frame and establishes a theoretical concept of counterculture which is more globally redolent. The book opens a door for further research of the Arab Uprising, arguing for a new and topical model of rebellion and struggle, and sheds light on the interaction between cinema and the street as well as between cultural narratives and politics in the context of the 2011 Egyptian uprising. What is counterculture in the twenty-first century? What role does cinema play in this new notion of counterculture?

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xvii, 318 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Introduction --
2. Counterculture as War Machine: Egypt 2011 --
3. Film and Politics in Egypt --
4. Countercultural Films --
5. Conclusion.-.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00829/21	306.0962 Tah F	Online !	Available