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in Archive Filmaria: Cinema, Curation, and Contagion
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2019
Figure 3. Film memorabilia and photo albums at Guddu Film Archive. Photograph by the author, 2012.
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in Archive Filmaria: Cinema, Curation, and Contagion
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2019
Figure 6. Film history denoted by maps of East and West Pakistan. Pakistan Film Magazine , February 17, 2017.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (2): 176–190.
Published: 01 August 2023
...Bindu Menon Mannil Abstract Film and media circulation between India and cities on the Persian Gulf can be traced back to the 1940s. This article excavates the histories of media goods that made their way to the strictly regimented and highly taxed regimes of India, examining how these mobilities...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 374–390.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Anna M. Dempsey One of the signature characteristics of Iranian film since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 is the appearance of children as primary protagonists in narratives about postrevolutionary life. Abbas Kiarostami in Where Is the Friend’s Home? (1987), for example, uses children as observers...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 85–91.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Malek Khouri Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs—the Iraqi Connection (2002), a film by the son of an Iraqi political exile living in Europe, was broadcast several times on prime-time television on the most popular Arab satellite television news channel, Al-Jazeera. As part of a budding new Arab cinema...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 133–146.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Litheko Modisane This essay examines the public life of the South African film Mapantsula (1988), an overtly antiapartheid engagé film about a petty gangster in the context of the 1980s political unrest in South African townships, from the moment of the film's inception to the history of its...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (3): 451–465.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Tejaswini Ganti In this essay, I focus on what has been characterized as a perennial problem for the Hindi film industry—the inability to accurately measure commercial outcome. While commentators and industry personnel criticize and lament this inability as an impediment to the rational functioning...
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in Archive Filmaria: Cinema, Curation, and Contagion
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2019
Figure 2. Prayer break at Guddu Film Archive. Photograph by the author, 2012.
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in Archive Filmaria: Cinema, Curation, and Contagion
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2019
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in Minor Threats and the Biopolitics of Youth
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 2. Film still, Les Misérables , dir. Ladj Ly (2019).
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in The Figure of the Martyr in Iran-Iraq Postwar Movies: The Case of Safar be Chazzabeh
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2022
Figure 5. The film depicts the battlefield as a site of death and martyrdom but also care and brotherhood. Safar be Chazzabeh (dir. Rasool Mollagholipour).
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in The Affective Feminism of Ghazaleh Hedayat
> Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Published: 01 May 2021
Figure 10. Ghazaleh Hedayat, from the series Photo Essence (2017). Instant film emulsion on paper, 25 × 35 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 110–121.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of remembrance in the films emerge as a dynamic terrain upon which political, generational, and class differences were inscribed and invoked. Iraqi Jews found themselves trapped within a binary framework of Arab nationalistic and Zionist discourses whereby Arabness and Jewishness emerged as an antithesis...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 541–564.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Ateya Khorakiwala Abstract This article argues that a fantasy of Indian road infrastructure was archived in official documentary films. It analyzes two 1960s road construction projects through three corresponding Films Division of India documentaries, which represented India's northern borders...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 474–486.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Alla Gadassik Amir Naderi is one of Iran’s most internationally acclaimed directors, and he is considered to be among the central figures in the nation’s postrevolutionary film industry. Paradoxically, his choice to leave Iran in hopes of expanded artistic opportunities in the United States has...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (1): 217–226.
Published: 01 May 2011
...Karima Laachir Egyptian filmmakers have braved the issue of religious tension since the beginning of the new millennium occasioned by the rise in religious violence between the two communities. Hassan and Morqos (2008) is the first popular film to address the issue of sectarian tensions directly...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (1): 69–84.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., social, and historical identifications. I analyze in this essay Palestinian-Belgian filmmaker Michel Khleifi's documentary and feature films as sites of a diasporic reconstruction of identity. I then focus on iconic representations of the face (the portrait and the close-up) and the landscape...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 196–211.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Figure 3. Film memorabilia and photo albums at Guddu Film Archive. Photograph by the author, 2012. ...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (3): 513–532.
Published: 01 December 2008
... of martyrdom in the Cinema of Sacred Defense, born of a complex history, are attempts to make the divine manifest in film and in real life. While the Cinema of Sacred Defense is often claimed to be a marked departure from previous Iranian films, some of its preoccupations remain much in line with the now...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 611–621.
Published: 01 December 2012
...Zakir Hossain Raju This article investigates the indigenization of cinema, from production to reception, within the broader social, political, and cultural domain of early- to mid-twentieth-century East Bengal/Pakistan. As an attempt to fill certain gaps in South Asian film studies, Raju’s essay...
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