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  title info:
    title: Humor in Middle Eastern cinema
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2014
    copyright date: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 264 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Humor, loss, and the possibility for politics in recent Palestinian cinema / Najat Rahman -- Strategies of subversion in Ben Ali's Tunisia : allegory and satire in Moncef Dhouib's The TV is coming / Robert Lang -- Satiric traversals in the comedy of Mehrān Modiri : space, irony, and national allegory on Iranian television / Cyrus Ali Zargar -- Ethnic humor, stereotypes, and cultural power in Israeli cinema / Elise Burton -- The laughter of Youssef Chahine / Najat Rahman -- Comedic mediations : war and genre in The outcasts / Somy Kim -- Humor and the cinematic sublime in Kiarostami's The wind will carry us / Gayatri Devi -- America the oppressively funny : humor and anti-Americanisms in modern Turkish cinema / Perin Gurel -- Laughter across borders : the case of the Bollywood film Tere Bin Laden / Mara Matta.
  note: edited by Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: aw-----
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
    geographic: Middle East
  subject:
    topic: Wit and humor in motion pictures
  classification: 791.4
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Contemporary approaches to film and media series
  identifier: 0814339379 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9780814339374 (pbk.)
  identifier: 0814339387 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9780814339381 (electronic bk.)
  record info:
    record content source: CDX
    record creation date: 150107
    record change date: 20151206125929.0
    record identifier: in00003498911