On the Heels of 1967
Chahine, Cinema, and Emotional Response(s) to the Defeat
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8970362 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tamara Maatouk (0000-0002-6594-0832, The Graduate Center, CUNY, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-42 |
| Publication date | 2023-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0020743823000028 |
| OpenAlex | W4321098555 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Many scholars have addressed the 1967 war in their studies, exploring its origins and aftermath, mostly in the context of diplomacy, the military, or regional and Cold War politics. Studies dealing with the war's repercussions on social, intellectual, and cultural life in Egypt are substantial as well. Yet the scholarship dedicated primarily to the study of emotions on the heels of the war remains scarce and disproportionate to the magnitude of the defeat. By juxtaposing films such as al-Ard (The Land, 1970), al-Ikhtiyar (The Choice, 1971), and al-ʿUsfur (The Sparrow, 1974), all directed by Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine, with contemporaneous essays, films, songs, interviews, and the press, I examine the different emotional responses of Chahine and, by extension and association, Egyptian cineasts and critics on the heels of the defeat, tracing their change between June 1967 and October 1973, when Egypt retaliated by launching an attack on Israeli positions in the Sinai Peninsula, and their possible connection to the existing understandings of the defeat at the time
Ancient history · Art history · Context (archaeology · Diplomacy · Elite · Movie theater · Peninsula · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · History of Emotions Research · Law · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
The Arab predicament
Contemporary Arab Thought
The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine's Cinema
The Egyptian Military in Popular Culture
The Politics of Egyptian Cinema
The new Arab left and 1967
Pictures, Emotions, Conceptual Change
The History of Emotions
German Cultural History and the Study of Film
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |