Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema

Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema
Author :
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 252
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780520976122
ISBN-13 : 0520976126
Rating : 4/5 (126 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema by : Prof. Deborah A. Starr

Download or read book Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema written by Prof. Deborah A. Starr and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema Related Books

Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Prof. Deborah A. Starr
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-22 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

GET EBOOK

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
Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Deborah A. Starr
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-22 - Publisher: University of California Press

GET EBOOK

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
Iberian Moorings
Language: en
Pages: 299
Authors: Ross Brann
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-28 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

GET EBOOK

To Christians the Iberian Peninsula was Hispania, to Muslims al-Andalus, and to Jews Sefarad. As much as these were all names given to the same real place, the
Arab-Jewish Literature
Language: en
Pages: 426
Authors: Reuven Snir
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-07 - Publisher: BRILL

GET EBOOK

In Arab-Jewish Literature: The Birth and Demise of the Arabic Short Story, Reuven Snir offers an account of the emergence of the art of the Arabic short story a
The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Joel Beinin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-11-10 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

GET EBOOK

In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1