1-5 of 5

Search Results for sultan

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (1993) 11 (1 (31)): 4–25.
Published: 01 May 1993
..., Aladdin’s rival for the hand of the Sultan’s daughter, Princess Ja~mineAladdin is turned out in “native dress”-though at first it is not clear to what land he is native. Soon it is evident that he is a 6 thinly disguised American entrepreneur: he meets Jasmine, his Arab future wife...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (1 (43)): 163–191.
Published: 01 May 2000
... is interrupted by shots 35–36, of the antiquarian who shows Modabber the helmet of Uzun Hasan, the stirrups of Sultan Mahmud, and the seal of Genghis Khan.12 Introducing the objects by name, Hagh-Negar holds them up to the direct gaze of the camera. Kian’s moment...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2007) 22 (1 (64)): 137–177.
Published: 01 May 2007
.... An Alternative Starting Point In Lonely Planet: Egypt, one can find the following description of Cairo’s Northern Cemetery: Known popularly as the City of the Dead . . . the Northern Cemetery began as an area of desert outside the city walls which offered the Mamluk sultans and emirs the unlimited...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2001) 16 (3 (48)): 113–157.
Published: 01 December 2001
.... Moreover, as Moore writes, “For no reason that I can offer, I began to think of the Prince’s ancestry in terms of the East- ern world. Was he the great-great-grandson of a Sultan or a Czar? Was he descended from the figments of a Persian fairy tale?”22 In spite of Moore’s performed naïveté here, one...
Journal Article
Camera Obscura (2000) 15 (2 (44)): 105–149.
Published: 01 September 2000
... colluded with French, English, and German imperialist forces to internalize European class hierarchies in the process of form- ing an independent national identity.30 Even as the contesta- tions among European nations and Sultans for the territories...