Publicado por Brand: American University in Cairo Press, 1998
ISBN 10: 9774244753 ISBN 13: 9789774244759
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Since it was first published in 1998, Viola Shafik's Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity has become an indispensable work for scholars of film and the contemporary Middle East. Combining detailed narrative history-economic, ideological, and aesthetic-with thought-provoking analysis, Arab Cinema provides a comprehensive overview of cinema in the Arab world, tracing the industry's development from colonial times to the present. It analyzes the ambiguous relationship with commercial western cinema, and the effect of Egyptian market dominance in the region. Tracing the influence on the medium of local and regional art forms and modes of thought, both classical and popular, Shafik shows how indigenous and external factors combine in a dynamic process of "cultural repackaging."Now updated to reflect cultural shifts in the last two decades, this revised edition contains a new afterword highlighting the latest developments in popular and in art-house filmmaking, with a special focus on Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, and the Gulf States. While exploring problematic issues such as European co-production for Arab art films, including their relation to cultural identity and their reception in the region and abroad, this new edition introduces readers to some of the most compelling cinematic works of the last decades.
Publicado por Brand: American University in Cairo Press, 1993
ISBN 10: 977424365X ISBN 13: 9789774243653
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. For anthropologists an 'early civilization' is historically the earliest form of a class-based society. In this original and provocative book, Bruce Trigger places our understanding of ancient Egypt in perspective through a comparative examination of Egypt during the Old and Middle Kingdoms with the early civilizations of the Inkas, the Shang and Western Chou of China, the Aztecs and their neighbors, the classic Mayas, the Yorubas and Benin, and ancient Mesopotamia.Professor Trigger investigates the economic foundations of these early civilizations, their politics and culture, and their religious traditions, drawing some surprising conclusions. His innovative work adds a new dimension to our understanding of early civilizations, charting new courses for their study in the future and indicating for both anthropologists and Egyptologists the value of comparative studies.Enhanced by an important bibliographical essay, the book broadens our understanding of the similarities and differences among ancient civilizations.
Publicado por Brand: American University in Cairo Press, 1997
ISBN 10: 9774244095 ISBN 13: 9789774244094
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Subsequent. Stewart surveys the vicissitudes of the city and makes sense of its highlights and lowlights, its times of glory and its times of misery, its heroic leaders and its cowardly tyrants. Sometimes a provincial outpost, sometimes an imperial capital, plunging from pinnacles of wealth, patronage, and achievement to sloughs of famine and cannibalism and rising again, Cairo--whose name means 'the Triumphant'--has changed and survived, and remains an astonishing and remarkable city.
Publicado por Brand: American University in Cairo Press, 2001
ISBN 10: 9774246322 ISBN 13: 9789774246326
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Second Printing. A single artist's depiction of the (mostly) historic.
Publicado por Brand: American University in Cairo Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 9771724312 ISBN 13: 9789771724315
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Book by Chittock, Lorraine.
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Publicado por Brand: American University in Cairo Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 9774247019 ISBN 13: 9789774247019
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. There can be few if any historians working in the wide field of Middle East Studies--and certainly none in the world of Islamic art and architecture--who are unacquainted with historian and archaeologist George Scanlon. At different times from the mid-1950s to the present day he has lived, worked, and studied in Egypt. For a major part of that period, he has been associated with the American University in Cairo, where he is currently professor of Islamic art and architecture in the Department of Arabic Studies.Although diverse in subject matter, the essays collected here in his honor together present a composite picture of Cairo, and more broadly of Islamic history and culture, from early medieval times to the present day. As such they provide a fitting tribute to one of the most eminent of scholars in the field. Some contributors are one-time students of Professor Scanlon, others are colleagues who, over the years, have worked with him in Egypt, the United States, or Britain. The essays themselves reflect the wide variety of sources contributors have drawn on from international Islamic collections and archives for topics that range broadly from medieval artifacts, architecture, and society to current issues of law, literature, philosophy, and urban change.
Publicado por Brand: The American University in Cairo Press, 1999
ISBN 10: 9774245040 ISBN 13: 9789774245046
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: The American University in Cairo Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 9774246772 ISBN 13: 9789774246777
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: American University in Cairo Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 9774247884 ISBN 13: 9789774247880
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: American University in Cairo Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 9774247582 ISBN 13: 9789774247583
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: The American University in Cairo Press, 1989
ISBN 10: 9774242203 ISBN 13: 9789774242205
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: American University in Cairo Press, 2000
ISBN 10: 977424527X ISBN 13: 9789774245275
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new. Vivienne Groves; Lyla Pinch Brock Ilustrador.
Publicado por Brand: American University in Cairo Press, 1987
ISBN 10: 9774241290 ISBN 13: 9789774241291
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.
Publicado por Brand: American University in Cairo Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 9774247248 ISBN 13: 9789774247248
Librería: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: new.