Most Egyptian historical films talk about the modern era, as the passage of a quarter of a century means that history has changed, and if we now make a film about the October War, this means that we are facing a historical film, and therefore Naguib Mahfouz's cinematic trilogy grows into a historical film, given that the events took place more than a quarter of a century ago when the film was shown for the first time, but history is crowded with stories, as we do not have films about the greats of Egypt in the nineteenth century, including Muhammad Ali Pasha and the leader Ahmed Orabi, at a time when the films portrayed rulers whose achievements were distorted.
Mahmoud Qassem's cinematic writings are distinguished by their archival ability to collect these cultural materials related to Arab and international arts and literature, especially in cinema and literature.
In the world of acting, the embodiment of evil unleashes extremely powerful energies in the artist, and therefore playing evil roles requires special talents.
It is important to have a study on science and imagination, to what extent cinema has reached this brilliant status of imagination, and the creation of eternal dreams that humans have dreamed of achieving, most notably ascending into space, conquering galaxies, descending to the cities of the depths of the seas and oceans, learning about the achievements of genetic engineering, the conflict between human brains and artificial intelligence, and all the topics of science that have become at the forefront of the interests of writers and filmmakers who presented all these numerous films of scientific imagination, in all parts of the world, especially in The United States and the former Soviet Union, so the parties competed not only in laboratories, but also in movie theaters and the shelves of scientific imagination libraries, to anticipate the future through what scientists imagined about the achievements of their work in the future.
The book "Exalted is Where Flavor is, Critical Insights into Cinema" by Bahraini film critic Hassan Haddad confirms that production is the cornerstone upon which the film industry is based.
From Santa Claus to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, from Uncle Sam to Uncle Tom, here is a compelling, eye-opening, and endlessly entertaining compendium of fictional trendsetters and world-shakers who have helped shape our culture and our lives.
Harry Potter, A Fish Called Wanda, Inspector Morse, Downton Abbey and X Men are just a few of the films that have become synonymous with the world renowned University City of Oxford.
By exploring the relationship between music and the moving image in film narrative, David Neumeyer shows that film music is not conceptually separate from sound or dialogue, but that all three are manipulated and continually interact in the larger acoustical world of the sound track.
Artistic, literary, and technological depictions of the climate crisis and how they influence humanity's response What does it mean to watch a disaster unfold?
The essays in Ways of Seeing, Ways of Speaking: The Integration of Rhetoric and Vision in Constructing the Real explore the intersections among image, word, and visual habits in shaping realities and subjectivities.
Spanning the epic science fiction franchises fifty-one-year history, a breathtaking collection of the most compelling Star Trek facts and trivia, including events from both on and off-screen, available in 100 concise lists.
This new edition of Bill Nichols's bestselling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism.
With a sharp eye for social detail and the pressures of class inequality, Alfred Hitchcock brought to the American scene a perspicacity and analytical shrewdness unparalleled in American cinema.
With six Academy Awards, four entries on the American Film Institute s list of 100 greatest American movies, and more titles on the National Historic Register of classic films deemed worthy of preservation than any other director, Billy Wilder counts as one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood.
Widely regarded by historians of the early moving picture as the best work yet published on pre-cinema, The Great Art of Light and Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema throws light on a fascinating range of optical media from the twelfth century to the turn of the twentieth.
In this groundbreaking work, film scholar Viola Shafik examines popular and commercial movies from Egypt's film industry, including a number of the biggest box-office hits widely distributed in Egypt and the Arab world.
This engaging and stimulating book argues that Shakespeare's plays significantly influenced movie genres in the twentieth century, particularly in films concerning love in the classic Hollywood period.
A fascinating trip around the side streets and back to backs of working-class cinema, exploring the British New Wave kitchen sink dramas of the 50s and 60s, such as Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Taste of Honey and This Sporting Life, to Kes, Quadrophenia and This is England.
