AWST-115 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Cinema Of Egypt, Al Jazeera, Arab Cinema
8 Jan 2019
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Title: cinema and television (ch. 8), cambridge companion to modern arab culture. The reading explained that arab cinema played an integral part in creating an arab identity during the period of decolonization. The chapter takes us through different eras of arab cinema and how these movies contributed to arab life and culture. There was the golden age of arab cinema, which was the period when pan-arabism as a political ideology was at its height (1940s- Short and full-length films were made in egypt, tunisia, and syria in the 1920s, but. Egyptian entrepreneurs worked hard to see that an independent national industry developed in egypt. Egypt"s development of cinematic industries led to the wide distribution and influence of. Also helped create a familiarity with egyptian dialect throughout the region. Algeria had more movie houses than egypt in 1933, but not a single film was made by a. 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s - golden age of arab cinema.
