Revolutionary Melodrama: Popular Film and Civic Identity in Nasser's Egypt

by Joel Gordon

Revolutionary Melodrama explores intersections between cinema and politics during the Nasser era, a period in which a military regime embarked upon the construction of a new civic identity for an independent Egypt. The way in which filmmakers participated in this venture provides the focal point, with their cultural production as the central texts which both shaped and were shaped by an emerging sense of a new Egypt. With the blessing of a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0970819900
• ISBN13: 9780970819901
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Middle East Documentation Center
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"