Lebanese Cinema Imagining the Civil War and Beyond

by Khatib, Lina

• ISBN13: 9781845116279
• ISBN10: 1845116275
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

Modern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 1975 have been about this war. Lina Khatib takes 1975 Beirut as her starting point, and takes us right through to today for this, the first major book on Lebanese cinema and its links with politics and national identity. She examines how Lebanon is imagined in such films as Jocelyn Saab's 'Once Upon a Time, Beirut', Ghassan Salhab's 'Terra Incognita', and Ziad Doueiri's 'West Beirut'. In so doing, she re-examines the importance of cinema to the national imagination. Also, and using interviews with the current generation of Lebanese filmmakers, she uncovers how in the Lebanese context cinema can both construct and communicate a national identity and thereby opens up new perspectives on the socio-political role of cinema in the Arab world.

Author Biography

Lina Khatib is Lecturer in World Cinema at Royal Holloway, University of London.  She is the author of 'Filming the Modern Middle East' (I.B. Tauris 2006).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Telling the Story of Daoism

The Sprouting of the Trunk of Daoism

The Composite Trunk of Daoism

The Masters who Nurtured the Trunk of Daoism

Growth of the Daoist Vine During the Qin and Han Dynasties

The Earliest Branches of Daoism

The Spread of Celestial Masters Daoism

New Vines and the Masters Who Began Them

Daoism in the Tang: Robust Maturity of the Vine

Scrambling and Overlapping Vines and Stems of Daoism in the Daoism of the Five Dynasties

Daoism Overgrows Chinese Culture: the Ming and Qing Dynasties

Spreading the Daoist Vine at Home and Abroad

A Quick Guide to Pronunciation

Glossary of Titles

Glossary of Names and Terms

Illustrations, Maps and Picture Credits

Works Cited

Index

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