Muslims in the Movies: A Global Anthology
Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press;Ilex Foundation (2021), xi, 290 pp.
Contains illustrations
Series: Mizan Series, 5
ISBN 978-0-674-25778-8 (pbk)
"Muslims in the Movies provides a series of essays that explore the portrayal and reception of Muslims in Euro-American film, transnational productions, and global national cinemas. The volume brings together a group of internationally recognized experts to introduce Muslims in the films of Europe, North America, Australia, Iran, Egypt, North Africa, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, India, Indonesia, and the Philippines. The interdisciplinary collection explores issues of identity, cultural production, and representation through the depiction of Muslims on screen and how audiences respond to these images. Together, the essays operate as an introduction to the subject of Muslims and film for new readers while also serving as new works of critical analysis for scholars of cinema." (Publisher description)
Approaching Muslims in the Movies / Kristian Petersen, 1
The Cinematic Secularization of Muhammad Ali / M. Cooper Harriss, 16
“Beware of Them Cameras:” Film Representations of Malcolm X / Michael Muhammad Knight, 30
The Incidental Muslim: The Characters We Overlook / Hussein Rashid, 45
“Then it was 1989, the year the world changed”: Shifting Representations of British Muslims before 9/11 / Claire Chambers, 58
Negotiating Queerness in the Ismaili Diaspora in the Films of Ian Iqbal Rashid / Alberto Fernandez-Carbajal, 71
Integration through Conversion: Discourses of Islam and the musulman laïc in Contemporary French Cinema / Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi, 85
Laughing at the Other: Muslims in Italian Comedies / Michela Ardizzoni, 101
Strong Girls and Lost Boys? Growing Up Muslim in Nordic Films / Sofia Sjö, 115
Muslims in Australian Cinema: The Future of Listening across Difference / Mehal Krayem, 129
Truth, Lies, and Justice: The Fragmented Picture in Asghar Farhadi’s Films / Nacim Pak-Shiraz, 143
Subverting Stereotypes through a Saudi Film: Wadjda, Gender, and Islam / Elliott Bazzano, 162
Harems and Hudud: Gendered Space in Farida Benlyazid’s Bab al-Sama Maftuh / Rebecca Moody, 176
School of Satan’s: al-Azhar’s Censure of Egyptian Cinema Coincides with the Vogue of Islamic History Films / Mohannad Ghawanmeh, 191
“There goes the neighborhood”: Film Soundstages and the Islamicate Public in Northern Nigeria / Abdalla Uba Adamu, 206
Sufi Aesthetics and the Making of Islam in Bollywood / Syed Haider, 219
Comedies of Terror: Strategic Offenses and Genre Tactics / Samhita Sunya, 234
Cinema of Misrecognition: Islam, Gender, and the Terrorist in Contemporary Indonesian Film / Alicia Izharuddin, 247
Debating Polygamy in Indonesian Cinema / Thomas Barker, 263
Philippine Muslim Women on Screen: From Sheltered Daughters to Revolutionaries / Vivienne Angeles, 277
The Cinematic Secularization of Muhammad Ali / M. Cooper Harriss, 16
“Beware of Them Cameras:” Film Representations of Malcolm X / Michael Muhammad Knight, 30
The Incidental Muslim: The Characters We Overlook / Hussein Rashid, 45
“Then it was 1989, the year the world changed”: Shifting Representations of British Muslims before 9/11 / Claire Chambers, 58
Negotiating Queerness in the Ismaili Diaspora in the Films of Ian Iqbal Rashid / Alberto Fernandez-Carbajal, 71
Integration through Conversion: Discourses of Islam and the musulman laïc in Contemporary French Cinema / Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi, 85
Laughing at the Other: Muslims in Italian Comedies / Michela Ardizzoni, 101
Strong Girls and Lost Boys? Growing Up Muslim in Nordic Films / Sofia Sjö, 115
Muslims in Australian Cinema: The Future of Listening across Difference / Mehal Krayem, 129
Truth, Lies, and Justice: The Fragmented Picture in Asghar Farhadi’s Films / Nacim Pak-Shiraz, 143
Subverting Stereotypes through a Saudi Film: Wadjda, Gender, and Islam / Elliott Bazzano, 162
Harems and Hudud: Gendered Space in Farida Benlyazid’s Bab al-Sama Maftuh / Rebecca Moody, 176
School of Satan’s: al-Azhar’s Censure of Egyptian Cinema Coincides with the Vogue of Islamic History Films / Mohannad Ghawanmeh, 191
“There goes the neighborhood”: Film Soundstages and the Islamicate Public in Northern Nigeria / Abdalla Uba Adamu, 206
Sufi Aesthetics and the Making of Islam in Bollywood / Syed Haider, 219
Comedies of Terror: Strategic Offenses and Genre Tactics / Samhita Sunya, 234
Cinema of Misrecognition: Islam, Gender, and the Terrorist in Contemporary Indonesian Film / Alicia Izharuddin, 247
Debating Polygamy in Indonesian Cinema / Thomas Barker, 263
Philippine Muslim Women on Screen: From Sheltered Daughters to Revolutionaries / Vivienne Angeles, 277
