Lebanese Cinema : Imagining the Civil War and Beyond things From the economic structures and

From the economic structures and ideological mystifications surrounding work in the Middle Ages

Kameelah Janan Rasheed

For the first time in hardcover

The text excavates war and displacement through a constellation of animate memories carved out of deep pleasure as well as brutality

It has been hard and often times dangerous to reveal my Palestinian heritage because of the many violent reactions I have received

Lebanese Cinema : Imagining the Civil War and Beyond things From the economic structures andModern 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