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Kauwila Mahi)

9781853323591

artists and visual communicators in many different places and contexts

where resistant ecologies thrive amid a terrain of perennial war

Lebanese Cinema : Imagining the Civil War and Beyond past Olive (lined)Modern 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