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Screens and Veils
Maghrebi Women's Cinema
Florence Martin

Examined within their economic, cultural, and political context, the work of
women Maghrebi filmmakers forms a cohesive body of work. Florence Martin
examines the intersections of nation and gender in seven films, showing how
directors turn around the politics of the gaze as they play with the various
meanings of the Arabic term hijab (veil, curtain, screen). Martin analyzes
these films on their own theoretical terms, developing the notion of
³transvergence² to examine how Maghrebi women¹s cinema is flexible, playful,
and transgressive in its themes, aesthetics, narratives, and modes of
address. These are distinctive films that traverse multiple cultures, both
borrowing from and resisting the discourses these cultures propose.

New Directions in National Cinemas
288 pp., 25 b&w illus.
cloth 978-0-253-35668-0 $70.00
paper 978-0-253-22341-8 $24.95

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