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Revolutionary Melodrama explores intersections between cinema and politics during the Nasser era, a period in which a military regime embarked upon the construction of a new civic identity for an independent Egypt. No realm of cultural prodution holds greater import for the Nasser era than the cinema. Even those who are active in deconstructing the last vestiges of the Nasserist state trumpet the Nasser era as a "golden age" of arts and media. The faces and voices on the big and little screens, many still alive, some still working, constitute a pantheon which many Egyptians, young and old alike, feel will never be replaced.
Joel Gordon is the author of "Nasser's Blessed Movement: Egypt's Free Officers and the July Revolution" and essays on modern Egyptian history, pop culture, and mass media. He is Associate Professor of History and Associate Director of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Arkansas.
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