Cinema in Muslim Societies

This book collates a comprehensive range of essays on film from across the Muslim world, exploring a wide variety of topics from cinematic art and poetry to religious identity and pornography. Responding to political and theoretical misconceptions about Islam and Muslim culture, it covers North African, Arab and Asian cinemas in a rich series of industry histories, single film studies and detailed analyses of celebrated directors. It is innovative and timely in its explicit engagement with vexing questions of Islamic aesthetics, political activism, socialism and the role of women in Muslim contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third Text.