A history of urban modernity in Cairo through cinema which’makes us see makes us see the movies in a whole new way‘ (Chris Berry, King’s College London)
The relationship between the city and cinema is formidable. The images and sounds of the city found in movies are perhaps the only experience that many people will have of cities they may never visit. Films influence the way we construct images of the world, and accordingly, in many instances, how we operate within it. Cinematic Cairo: Egyptian Urban Modernity from Reel to Real offers a history of Cairo’s urban modernity using film as the primary source of exploration, and cinematic space as both an analytical tool and a medium of critique. Cairo has provided rich subject material for Egypt’s film industry since the inception of the art form at the end of the nineteenth century. The “reel” city—imagined, perceived, and experienced—provides the spatial domain that mirrors change and allows for an interrogation of the “real” city as it encountered modernity over the course of a century.
Bringing together chapters by architects and art and literary historians, this volume explores this parallel and convergent relationship through two sections. The first uses films from the 1930s to the end of the twentieth century to illustrate the development of a modern Cairo and its modern subjects. The second section is focused on tracing the transformation of the cinematic city under conditions of neoliberalism, religious fundamentalism, and gender tensions. The result is a comprehensive narrative of the urban modernity of one of the most important cities in the Arab world and Global South.
Contributors
Ahmed H. Abdel Azim , University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Khaled Adham , Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany
Kinda Al Samara , Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia
Nezar Al Sayyad , University of California, Berkeley, USA
Doaa Al Amir , October 6th University, Cairo, Egypt
Mirette Aziz , Misr International University, Egypt
Muhammad Emad Feteha, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Farah Gendy , Raef Fahmi Architects, Cairo, Egypt
Hala A. Hassanien , Architect, Wasl, Cairo, Egypt
Tayseer Khairy , Arab Academy for Science Technology & Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt
Mariam Marei, The American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
Ameer Saad , Architect, Dar Al-Handasa, Cairo, Egypt
Heba Safey Eldeen , Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt
Mohammad Salama , San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA
Nour Sobhi , Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt
Sherin Soliman , Misr International University, Cairo, Egypt
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Cinematic Cairo and the Discourse on Egyptian Urban Modernity: A Prologue, Nezar Al Sayyad
PART I: Cinematic Cairo, 1930 to the Present
Chapter 1: Bourgeois Cairo, 1930: Cinematic Representations of Modernity of Place in the Middle-Class City,
Ameer Abdurrahman Saad
Chapter 2: Naguib Mahfouz’s Cinematic Cairo: Depictions of Urban Transformation in Twentieth Century Egypt, Nezar Al Sayyad and Mohammad Salama
Chapter 3: Bridge as Border and Connector: Class and Social Relations in Cinematic Cairo, 1940-1950,
Nezar Al Sayyad and Doaa Al Amir
Chapter 4: Cinematic Cairo of the United Arab Republic, 1958- 1962, Kinda Al Samara
Chapter5: Kafkaesque Modernity: Cairo in the 1980s and the Middle-Class Housing Crisis, Ahmed H. Abdel Azim
Chapter 6: Escaping Cairo: Bureaucratic Modernity in the Cinematic Portrayal of the City in the 1980s,
Tayseer Khairy
Chapter 7: Cairo Beyond the Windshield: From Modernity of Realism to Surrealistic Postmodernity, 1980s-1990s, Mariam S. Marei
PART II: Themes in the Transformation of Cinematic Cairo
Chapter 8: Transformations in the Cinematic Space of a Cairo Suburb in the Late-Twentieth-Century, Farah Gendy
Chapter 9: From Hara to Imara: Social Transformations in Cinematic Cairo, Mirette Aziz
Chapter 10: Cairo’s Cinematic Coffeehouses: Modernity, Urbanity and the Changing Image of an Institution,
Khaled Adham
Chapter 11: Gendered Modernity: On the Changing Role of Women in Modern Cinematic Cairo, 1950s-2000s,
Nour Adel Sobhi
Chapter 12: Religious Tolerance in the Cairo of the Movies, 1950s-2000s, Hala A. Hassanien
Chapter 13: The City of a Thousand Minarets and a Million Satellite Dishes: The Dilemma of Islam and Modernity in Cinematic Cairo, Muhammad E. Feteha
Chapter 14: Women’s Right to the City: Cinematic Representation of Cairene Urban Poverty, Heba Safey Eldeen and Sherien Soliman
Über den Autor
Heba Safey Eldeen is professor of architecture and urban design at Misr International University (MIU), Cairo, and an adjunct professor at the American University in Cairo (AUC). She currently serves as director of the House of Egyptian Architecture (HEA), under the Cultural Development Fund of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture. She is also director of the Architecture and Children Work Program of the International Union of Architects (UIA), and a member of the Architecture Committee of the Supreme Council for Culture of Egypt.Ebooks vom selben Autor / Herausgeber
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