Overture: Maghrebi Women's Transvergent Cinema
Act I: Transnational Feminist Storytellers: Shahrazad, Assia, and
Farida
1. Assia Djebar's Transvergent Narrative in The Nuba of the Women
of Mount Chenoua (Algeria, 1978)
2. Farida Benlyazid's Initiated Audiences in A Door to the Sky
(Morocco, 1998)
Act II: Screens & Veils
3. Yamina Bachir-Chouikh's Transvergent Echoes in Rachida (Algeria,
2002)
4. Raja Amari's Screen of the Haptic in Red Satin (Tunisia,
2002)
5. Nadia El Fani's Multiple Screens and Veils in Bedwin Hacker
(Tunisia, 2002)
Act III: From Dunyazad to Transvergent Audiences
6. Yasmina Kassari's "Burning" Screens in The Sleeping Child
(Morocco, 2004)
7. Selma Baccar's Transvergent Spectatorship in Khochkhach
(Tunisia, 2006)
Coda
Appendix A: Political and Cinematic Chronology
Appendix B: Primary Filmography
Bibliography
The cinematic vision of North African women directors
Florence Martin is Professor of French and Francophone Literature and Cinema at Goucher College and Associate Editor of Studies in French Cinema. She is author of Bessie Smith, of De la Guyane à la diaspora africaine (with Isabelle Favre), and of A vous de voir! (with Maryse Fauvel and Stéphanie Martin).
Florence Martin's Screens and Veils . . . manages to effectively
shed a light on the diverse yet underrepresented cinema of Maghrebi
women.5.1 2014
*Transnational Cinemas*
'Screens and Veils' provides an excellent presentation and analysis
of women's filmmaking from North Africa. . . Its attention to
contemporary film theory is matched by its presentation of
materials derived from Martin's interviews with filmmakers,
interviews that reveal a sincere engagement with the filmmakers and
a deep understanding of contemporary production. In short, this is
a fine book that will be of interest to anyone working on or
teaching film and gender studies in North African and Middle
Eastern studies, and beyond.44 2013
*Journal of Arabic Literature*
[T]his study constitutes an important and timely addition to the
study of Francophone cinemas and of Maghrebi cinemas in
particular.86.2
*FRENCH REVIEW*
Martin's 'Screens and Veils' provides a welcome addition to the
rapidly expanding field of Maghrebi film studies. . . Martin is at
once a creative and complete commentator of films, and her book
stands to become a staple for novices and experts of the filmic
Maghreb alike.
*Film Criticism*
Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women's Cinema . . . offers an
insightful and novel alternative to the usual postcolonial feminist
approaches to Maghrebi women's film studies. Rather than providing
the reader with an encyclopedic summary, or a historical accounting
of the topic, Martin's work argues for a transnational feminist
reading of Maghrebi cinema that speaks to the fluid interplay
between various cultural systems, narrative structures, and
aesthetic forms across borders and among diverse cultural
audiences.
*Research in African Literatures*
This book inscribes a new chapter in women filmmaking on the
Maghreb; it makes an important contribution to cinema, literature,
and cultural studies. . . . Highly recommended.
*Choice*
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