Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women's CinemaExamined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various meanings of the Arabic term hijab (veil, curtain, screen). Martin analyzes these films on their own theoretical terms, developing the notion of "transvergence" to examine how Maghrebi women's cinema is flexible, playful, and transgressive in its themes, aesthetics, narratives, and modes of address. These are distinctive films that traverse multiple cultures, both borrowing from and resisting the discourses these cultures propose. |
Contents
Overture Maghrebi Womens Transvergent Cinema | 1 |
Act I Transnational Feminist Storytellers | 41 |
1 Assia Djebars Transvergent Nuba | 43 |
2 Farida Benlyazids Initiation Narrative | 63 |
Act II Transvergent Screens | 89 |
3 Yamina BachirChouikhs Transvergent Echoes | 91 |
4 Raja Amaris Screen of the Haptic | 113 |
5 Nadia El Fanis Multiple Screens | 131 |
7 Selma Baccars Transvergent Spectatorship | 183 |
Coda | 210 |
Political and Cinematic Chronology | 217 |
Primary Filmography | 223 |
Selected Filmography of Hiam Abbas | 237 |
Notes | 239 |
Bibliography | 257 |
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