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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Lebanese Cinema"”.
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Women’s Voices in Lebanese Cinema: Crisis, Patriarchy and Empowerment
The history of Lebanese cinema can be traced back to the late 1920s, but women film directors only became fully active from the mid-1970s, coinciding with the eruption of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). The war gave rise to a new generation of filmmakers who wanted to document and portray the …
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Lebanese Cinema as Resistance: Nadine Labaki’s Rejection of Orientalism and Reclamation of Female Identity
… image of Eastern societies in general, and the Lebanese society in particular, and this thesis examines how Nadine Labaki’s films Caramel and Where Do We Go Now? challenge oriental tropes. This research also integrates Sara Ahmed’s theory of Queer Phenomenology to study the manners in which …