Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt

"This book studies the rise of cinema in colonial Egypt as a supplemental secular public sphere that is not anti-religion. To this end, it investigates the reception of film by three centres of powers: the colonial authorities, the Muslim clergy and the Cairene bourgeoisie. It inquires about the representations of modernity in films produced during the time and the place filmmakers assigned to Islam in these representations. The result is a story of survival and coexistence told through the lens of cinema as modern art and popular culture negotiating its overt and covert censorship in the public sphere, despite colonisation and war."
1. Introduction: Basic Concepts -- 2. Regulating the Amour-propre of the Colonized -- 3. Protecting the Amour-propre of Islam -- 4. Caricaturing Dominant Modernity (Tafarnug) -- 5. Lampooning Residual Modernity (Ta’ssul) -- 6. Celebrating Emergent Modernity (Asala)
"This book studies the rise of cinema in colonial Egypt as a supplemental secular public sphere that is not anti-religion. To this end, it investigates the reception of film by three centres of powers: the colonial authorities, the Muslim clergy and the Cairene bourgeoisie. It inquires about the representations of modernity in films produced during the time and the place filmmakers assigned to Islam in these representations. The result is a story of survival and coexistence told through the lens of cinema as modern art and popular culture negotiating its overt and covert censorship in the public sphere, despite colonisation and war."