TY - BOOK ID - 438243 TI - Screens and veils : Maghrebi women's cinema PY - 2011 SN - 9780253356680 9780253223418 9786613626431 0253005655 1280596600 9780253005656 0253356687 0253223415 6613626430 PB - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Film KW - Maghreb KW - Motion pictures KW - Women motion picture producers and directors KW - Women in motion pictures. KW - Cinéma KW - Productrices et réalisatrices de cinéma KW - Femmes au cinéma KW - History KW - Social aspects KW - Histoire KW - Aspect social KW - Cinéma KW - Productrices et réalisatrices de cinéma KW - Femmes au cinéma KW - Africa, North KW - In motion pictures. KW - Cinema KW - Feature films KW - Films KW - Movies KW - Moving-pictures KW - Audio-visual materials KW - Mass media KW - Performing arts KW - Women moving-picture producers and directors KW - Motion picture producers and directors KW - Women in the motion picture industry KW - History and criticism KW - History. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:438243 AB - 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 ""transvergence"" to examine how Maghrebi women's cinema is flexible, playful, and transgressive in its themes, aesthetics, narratives, and modes of a ER -