Valerie Anishchenkova
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780748643400
- eISBN:
- 9781474406321
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748643400.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
Within Arab cultural discourses, autobiographical film offers a novel mode of self-expression. Its importance cannot be underestimated, taking into consideration cinema’s popularity in the Arab world ...
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Within Arab cultural discourses, autobiographical film offers a novel mode of self-expression. Its importance cannot be underestimated, taking into consideration cinema’s popularity in the Arab world and its accessibility to audiences of all ages, social backgrounds and ideologies. Filmic autobiography possibly offers a more intimate connection between the filmmakers and their audience than a traditional literary text. This chapter explores modes of personal and communal identity chosen for visual representation and theorizes Arab autobiographical film, using Youssef Chahine’s Alexandria Trilogy as case studies: “Alexandria.. Why?” (1978), “An Egyptian Story” (1982), and “Alexandria, Again and Forever” (1989).Less
Within Arab cultural discourses, autobiographical film offers a novel mode of self-expression. Its importance cannot be underestimated, taking into consideration cinema’s popularity in the Arab world and its accessibility to audiences of all ages, social backgrounds and ideologies. Filmic autobiography possibly offers a more intimate connection between the filmmakers and their audience than a traditional literary text. This chapter explores modes of personal and communal identity chosen for visual representation and theorizes Arab autobiographical film, using Youssef Chahine’s Alexandria Trilogy as case studies: “Alexandria.. Why?” (1978), “An Egyptian Story” (1982), and “Alexandria, Again and Forever” (1989).
