Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema Starr, Deborah A. creator author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut JSTOR (Organization) text dictionary Electronic books. cau US-CA 2021 2020 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (252 p.). A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. In this book, Deborah A. Starr recuperates the work of Togo Mizrahi, a pioneer of Egyptian cinema. Mizrahi, an Egyptian Jew with Italian nationality, established himself as a prolific director of popular comedies and musicals in the 1930s and 1940s. As a studio owner and producer, Mizrahi promoted the idea that developing a local cinema industry was a project of national importance. Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema integrates film analysis with film history to tease out the cultural and political implications of Mizrahi's work. His movies, Starr argues, subvert dominant notions of race, gender, and nationality through their playful-and queer-use of masquerade and mistaken identity. Taken together, Mizrahi's films offer a hopeful vision of a pluralist Egypt. By reevaluating Mizrahi's contributions to Egyptian culture, Starr challenges readers to reconsider the debates over who is Egyptian and what constitutes national cinema. Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Translation and Transliteration -- 1 Togo Mizrahi, Agent of Exchange -- 2 Togo Mizrahi, Work over Words -- 3 Crimes of Mistaken Identity -- 4 Queering the Levantine -- 5 Journeys of Assumed Identity: Seven O'Clock (1937) -- 6 Traveling Anxieties -- 7 Courtesan and Concubine -- 8 Frames of Influence -- Appendix: Togo Mizrahi Filmography -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index specialized Deborah A. Starr. In English. Motion picture producers and directors Egypt Motion pictures Egypt 20th century Producteurs et réalisateurs de cinéma Égypte SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies Motion picture producers and directors Motion pictures Egypt 1900-1999 fast PN1998.3.M585 S73 2020 791.430/33092 University of California Series in Jewish History and Cultures ; 1 9780520976122 0520976126 2020004086 22573/ctv2r978qv JSTOR https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2rb76bm DEGRU 210421 20230103223534.8 in00004635758 eng