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This book deals with Fouad el-Mohandes’ work in theatre, radio, and television, and celebrates his productions which always distinguished themselves and his ever-elegant performances, in all media and artistic genres.
It focuses its study on Fouad el-Mohandes’ cinematic works, particularly during the period of his on-screen stardom in the sixties and seventies, and especially within the framework of the Fouad el-Mohandes/Shwikar duo. The book examines the interplay of el-Mohandes’ work with history and society through three issues:
First; el-Mohandes’ film adaptations and the paradox between his attempt to crate a patriotic Egyptian comedy using mostly English plays and films.
Second; the predominance of the theme of duplicates and pairs in the films, where el-Mohandes appears in dual roles of good and evil, or the authentic Egyptian and the criminal foreigner.
Finally; how comedy opened a spaced for the suppressed subconscious to breathe during the Nasserite period. A space where comedy allowed society’s subconscious to reveal what it did not dare to consciously say; about the domination of the regime, the rule of symbolic violence and the tightening grip of the security forces, all while contradicting the Nasserist discourse about freedom.
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Walid el-Khachab is a Professor of Arabic Studies at York University in Canada and director of the Canadian Arab Studies Group. His first book, “Studies in Transtextuality” was published in 1995. Architect of Joy is his second critical book in Arabic. Between them, a doctoral dissertation on Egyptian cinema and more than sixty chapters in book and academic articles on issues of cultural identity and modernity, literature and cinema, and Sufism in heritage and colloquial culture.
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- Publisher El Maraya for Culture and Arts
- Publication Date December 2022
- Orginal LanguageArabic
- ISBN/Identifier 9789776898370
- Publication Country or regionEgypt
- FormatPaperback
- Pages224
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Titleمهندس البهجة - فؤاد المهندس ولا وعي السينما
- Original Language Authorsوليد الخشاب
- Page size17x24 cm (24x17) cm
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