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Response paper 5
Reading: Viola Shafik, Arab Cinema, pp. 121-197
Discuss two major changes that Arab filmmakers made films based on adaptations of western literary works into Arab cinema.
Describe three ways in which the novelist Naguib Mahfouz played a role in the evolution of Egyptian cinema.
Identify three main forms of Arab realist films and discuss their purposes.
What are the major themes that figure in Algerian realist (revolutionary) films?
Identify two major themes that appear in Syrian realist (alternative) cinema.
What are some of the characteristics of the Cinema d’auteur in Arab cinema?