The National Imaginarium: A History of Egyptian Filmmaking

A cultural, social, and economic history of Egyptian cinema of the twentieth century

Spanning a century of Egyptian filmmaking, this work weaves together culture, history, politics, and economics to form a narrative of how Egyptian national identity came to be constructed and reconstructed over time on film. It goes beyond the films themselves to explore the processes of filmmaking—the artists that made it possible, the institutional networks, structures, and rules that bound them together, ...