Arab Animation
Images of Identity
Published on 6. February 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-4744-7949-3 (ISBN)
Description
Omar Sayfo textually analyses around 40 animation productions in Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, the Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia and the United Arab Emirates, from the 1930s until recently. He shows how rival notions of national, pan-Arab and Islamic identities have been advocated, challenged and fused by Arab animated cartoons.
Reviews / Votes
This work is encyclopaedic in ambition and scope. Its coverage includes details of the production background and texts of scores of animations, organised coherently according to the author's framework of national, pan-Arab, Islamic, 'revolutionary' and global identities and researched through painstaking and resourceful seeking out and sifting of a wide range of archives and sources, including interviews. -- Naomi Sakr, Professor of Media Policy, University of Westminster Dr. Sayfo has worked with the best scholars in the field, and has done such a large amount of groundwork through interviews and fieldwork, that I am convinced this book will serve as one of the benchmarks for research on Arab animation in years to come. This excellent book combines critical analysis of existing scholarship with original research that has not been accessed or unlocked previously. -- Professor Stefanie Van de Peer, Lecturer in Film and Media, Queen Margaret UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
35 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
408 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-7949-3 (9781474479493)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Omar Sayfo is Affiliated Researcher in the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) at Utrecht University and a researcher at the Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies. He has published articles among others in Animation, Media Industries Journal and The Journal of Popular Culture, as well as chapters in a number of edited collections.
Content
Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Mediating National Identities in Arab Animation; 3. Arab Animated Sitcoms: Vehicles For The Mediation Of Critical Notions Of National Identities; 4. Approaches To Pan-Arab Identities; 5. Advocating Islamic Identities In Arab Animated Cartoons; 6. The Arab Spring Of Animation; 7. Epilogue: Can Arab Animation Go Global?; References.