Gayatri Devi

Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

While Middle Eastern culture does not tend to be associated with laughter and levity in the global imagination, humor¿often satirical¿has long been a staple of mainstream Arabic film. In Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema, editors Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman shed light on this tradition, as well as humor and laughter motivated by other intent¿including parody, irony, the absurd, burlesque, and dark comedy. Contributors trace the proliferation of humor in contemporary Middle Eastern cinema in the works of individual directors and from the perspectives of genre, national cinemas, and diasporic cinema. Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema explores what humor theorists have identified as an "emancipatory," "liberatory," even "revolutionary" function to humor. Among the questions contributors ask are: How does Middle Eastern cinema and media highlight the stakes and place of humor in art and in life? What is its relation to the political? Can humor in cinematic art be emancipatory? What are...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wayne State University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780814339381
• Artikelnr.: 42366868