Overview: An innovative work of creative nonfiction, to be read in one piece.Draws on academic, literary, and personal material to forge a creative nonfiction approach to writing about film.Examines Egypt‘s posBrilliantly introduced by Nezar Andary, this book is a work of creative nonfiction that approaches writing on film in a fresh and provocative way. It draws on academic, literary, and personal material to start a dialogue with the Egyptian filmmaker Shadi Abdel Salam’s .The Mummy. (1969), tracing the many meanings of Egypt’s postcolonial modernity and touching on Arab, Muslim, and ancient
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