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Combing detailed narrative history with thought-provoking analysis, this study provides extensive coverage 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. Covering North African, Syrian, Palestinian, Iraqi, and Lebanese cinema, Arab Cinema traces the influence on the medium of local and regional art forms and shows how indigenous and external factors have combined in a dynamic process of 'cultural repackaging.'
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