TAILIEUCHUNG - POPULAR CINEMA IN EGYPT Walter Armbrust

Both are formative structures, mechanisms not meaning. In themselves they have no signification, they have to be attached to an idealisation. Both pursue aims in indifference to perceptual reality, creating the imagised, eroticised concept of the world that forms the perception of the subject and makes a mockery of empirical objectivity. During its history, the cinema seems to have evolved a particularillusion of reality in which this contradiction between libido and ego has found a beautifully complementary phantasy world. In reality the phantasy world of the screen is subject to the law which produces it. Sexual instincts and. | POPULAR CINEMA IN EGYPT Walter Armbrust Egyptian cinema makes an intriguing point of entry into the study of popular cuture. In this two-week segment in the . in Film Aesthetics course students will consider various analyses of what is at stake in popular cinema but in a context that will compel them to think one step further not just of how popularity is constructed in European or American cinema but also how standards for popularity travel across cultures. The films required for this module will contrast works that have been considered popular by various criteria with films that have in one way or another turned their backs on the quest for popularity in pursuit of other ends. The objective of this segment of the course is to throw light on the category of popular cinema from an angle that will be unfamiliar for most students. By doing so we illuminate its contours more effectively than would be the case if we were to examine popular culture in the context of the European and American films typically analyzed in film studies literature. I will be giving lectures on the history of Egyptian Cinema in St. Antony s College the Hilda Bess Building New Room Wednesdays from 2-4 Weeks 1 and 3-7. Week One Screenings Determination al- Azima . 1939. Kamal Salim. I Love You Ahibbak Inta . 1949. Ahmad Badr Khan. Sleepless Nights Sahar al-Layali . 2003. Hani Khalifa. Recommended Terrorism and Kabab al-Irhab wa al-Kabab . 1992. Sharif Arafa. Session 1 National Cinema Readings Crofts Stephen. 2006. Reconceptualizing National Cinema s. In Valentina Vitali and Paul Willemen eds. Theorising National Cinema. London BFI pp. 44-60. Crofts Stephen. 2006. The National Revisited. In Valentina Vitali and Paul Willemen eds. Theorising National Cinema. London BFI pp. 29-43. Rosen Philip. 2006. History Textuality Nation Kracauer Burch and Some Problems in the Study of National Cinemas. In Valentina Vitali and Paul Willemen eds. Theorising National Cinema. London BFI pp. 17-28. 1 Shafik .

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