Religious Identities in Arab Film Production: National and Moral Imaginaries

TY - CHAP

T1 - Religious Identities in Arab Film Production

T2 - National and Moral Imaginaries

AU - Galal, Ehab

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Arab film production is a window into national and regional narratives and the imaginaries of Arab and religious social groups. Whereas current public debates assign a great deal of attention to political Islam and explicit religious identification, Arab film production to a larger degree emphasizes religious practices in everyday life. In this chapter, movies with explicit as well as implicit representation of religion, and their contribution to the construction of Arab religious identities, will be examined. The case material that illustrates this connection is from Egyptian cinema, primarily from 1952 to 2000, since in this period the Egyptian film industry dominated, and had a huge influence on, Arab film production.

AB - Arab film production is a window into national and regional narratives and the imaginaries of Arab and religious social groups. Whereas current public debates assign a great deal of attention to political Islam and explicit religious identification, Arab film production to a larger degree emphasizes religious practices in everyday life. In this chapter, movies with explicit as well as implicit representation of religion, and their contribution to the construction of Arab religious identities, will be examined. The case material that illustrates this connection is from Egyptian cinema, primarily from 1952 to 2000, since in this period the Egyptian film industry dominated, and had a huge influence on, Arab film production.

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-0-9935845-9-6

BT - Arab Identities

PB - Akkadia Press

ER -