{"product_id":"lebanese-cinema-imagining-the-civil-war-and-beyond-by-lucia-nagib","title":"Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond by Lúcia Nagib","description":"\u003cp\u003eModern Lebanese cinema can best be explored in the context of the Civil War, in part because almost all the Lebanese films made since its outset in 1975 have been about this war. Lina Khatib takes 1975 Beirut as her starting point, and takes us right through to today for this, the first major book on Lebanese cinema and its links with politics and national identity.She examines how Lebanon is imagined in such films as Jocelyn Saab's \"Once Upon a Time, Beirut\", Ghassan Salhab's \"Terra Incognita\", and Ziad Doueiri's \"West Beirut\". In so doing, she re-examines the importance of cinema to the national imagination. Also, and using interviews with the current generation of Lebanese filmmakers, she uncovers how in the Lebanese context cinema can both construct and communicate a national identity and thereby opens up new perspectives on the socio-political role of cinema in the Arab world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLúcia Nagib\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Film and Director of the Centre for Film Aesthetics and Cultures (CFAC) at the University of Reading. Her research has focused, among other subjects, on polycentric approaches to world cinema, new waves and new cinemas, cinematic realism and intermediality. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWorld Cinema and the Ethics of Realism \u003c\/i\u003e(Continuum, 2011), \u003ci\u003eBrazil on Screen: Cinema Novo, New Cinema, Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e (I.B. Tauris, 2007), \u003ci\u003eThe Brazilian Film Revival: Interviews with 90 Filmmakers of the 90s\u003c\/i\u003e (Editora 34, 2002), \u003ci\u003eBorn of the Ashes: The Auteur and the Individual in Oshima's Films\u003c\/i\u003e (Edusp, 1995), \u003ci\u003eAround the Japanese Nouvelle Vague \u003c\/i\u003e(Editora da Unicamp, 1993) and \u003ci\u003eWerner Herzog: Film as Reality\u003c\/i\u003e (EstaçãoLiberdade, 1991). She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eImpure Cinema: Intermedial and Intercultural Approaches to Film \u003c\/i\u003e(with Anne Jerslev, 2013), \u003ci\u003eTheorizing World Cinema \u003c\/i\u003e(with Chris Perriam and Rajinder Dudrah, I.B. Tauris, 2011), \u003ci\u003eRealism and the Audiovisual Media \u003c\/i\u003e(with Cecília Mello, Palgrave, 2009), \u003ci\u003eThe New Brazilian Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e (I.B. Tauris, 2003), \u003ci\u003eMaster Mizoguchi\u003c\/i\u003e (Navegar, 1990) and \u003ci\u003eOzu\u003c\/i\u003e (Marco Zero, 1990).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I.B. Tauris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041874608413,"sku":"9781845116286","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/5897\/files\/Screenshot2026-03-14at6.04.18pm.png?v=1773525894","url":"https:\/\/www.middleeastbooks.com\/products\/lebanese-cinema-imagining-the-civil-war-and-beyond-by-lucia-nagib","provider":"Middle East Books and More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}