Counting Kisses at the Movies: The Screen Kiss and the Cinematic Experience in Egypt

IF 1.3 3区 社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES
Ifdal Elsaket
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Abstract In this article, I use the 1969 Egyptian film Abi fawq al-Shagara and the motif of the kiss as a launch pad to explore broader cinematic experiences and cultures in 1960s Egypt and beyond. I argue that the deployment and debates around screen kisses not only represented wider conflicting and shifting impulses around questions of audience tastes, sexuality, and the role of the cinema, but became central motifs through which audiences experienced the movies. Inspired by a historical approach to the study of cinema, one in which media texts and audiences are central, this article shifts the gaze away from the screen to consider the public lens through which films were appreciated, the broader global media landscape in which they existed, and the tensions between audiences and critics. I bring popular magazines, audience reactions and memories, and wider international cultural trends into the frames of analysis not only to nuance our understanding of Egyptian cinematic cultures, but to shed light on an often-neglected component of Egyptian history of the 1960s; the fun, the pleasures, and the anxieties of a quickly changing cultural and leisure landscape, and the wider cultural mood that helped shape a generation's experiences of the cinema.
电影中的吻数:银幕上的吻和埃及的电影体验
在这篇文章中,我以1969年的埃及电影《阿比·福克·沙加拉》和接吻的主题为出发点,探索20世纪60年代埃及及以后更广泛的电影体验和文化。我认为,围绕银幕之吻的展开和争论不仅代表了围绕观众品味、性取向和电影角色等问题的更广泛的冲突和转变冲动,而且成为了观众体验电影的核心主题。受以媒体文本和观众为中心的电影研究历史方法的启发,本文将目光从屏幕转移到考虑电影被欣赏的公共镜头,它们存在的更广泛的全球媒体景观,以及观众和评论家之间的紧张关系。我把流行杂志、观众的反应和记忆以及更广泛的国际文化趋势纳入分析框架,不仅使我们对埃及电影文化的理解有所细微差别,而且揭示了20世纪60年代埃及历史中一个经常被忽视的组成部分;快速变化的文化和休闲景观带来的乐趣、愉悦和焦虑,以及更广泛的文化情绪,帮助塑造了一代人的电影体验。
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of Middle East Studies publishes original research on politics, society and culture in the Middle East from the seventh century to the present day. The journal also covers Spain, south-east Europe, and parts of Africa, South Asia, and the former Soviet Union for subjects of relevance to Middle Eastern civilization. Particular attention is paid to the history, politics, economics, anthropology, sociology, literature, and cultural studies of the area and to comparative religion, theology, law, and philosophy. Each issue contains approximately 50 pages of detailed book reviews. Subscribers to the print version also receive the Review of Middle East Studies free. Published under the auspices of the Middle East Studies Association of North America
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