Lehrende: Prof. Dr. Laila Prager
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Credits: 6,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
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Kommentare/ Inhalte: The popular image of the Middle East has to a large extent been created by the imagery about the Orient brought forward in Hollywood movies. Usually, such movies oscillated between racism, Islamophobia and cultural discrimination on the one hand, and the romantization of Arab life on the other hand. Generally, these motion pictures have led to an oversimplification of the region and its cultural, social, and religious diversity by constructing monolithic essentialist images which Edward Said would have classified as “Orientalism”. In this seminar we will first present and analyze some of these movies in order to get an idea about the way in which Hollywood (among other film making industries) has shaped the Western image of the Middle East. Then, for a change of perspective we will focus on the vibrant Middle Eastern film industry which already from the 1930s onwards has produced a variety of movies ranging from historical plots, over drama to musicals. The major focus however will be on the contemporary Middle Eastern cinema and its cultural specific themes involving a wide array of political, social, cultural, and religious topics. We shall subject these movies to an anthropological analysis and explore whether the stories and images conveyed can be interpreted as a kind of “auto-ethnography”. Finally we shall discuss how such forms of auto-ethnography relate to other forms of cultural representation. The popular image of the Middle East has to a large extent been created by the imagery about the Orient brought forward in Hollywood movies. Usually, such movies oscillated between racism, Islamophobia and cultural discrimination on the one hand, and the romanticization of Arab life on the other hand. Generally, these motion pictures have led to an oversimplification of the region and its cultural, social, and religious diversity by constructing monolithic essentialist images which Edward Said would have classified as “Orientalism”. In this seminar we will first present and analyze some of these movies in order to get an idea about the way in which Hollywood (among other film making industries) has shaped the Western image of the Middle East. Then, for a change of perspective we will focus on the vibrant Middle Eastern film industry which already from the 1930s onwards has produced a variety of movies ranging from historical plots, over drama to musicals. The major focus however will be on the contemporary Middle Eastern cinema and its culturally specific themes involving a wide array of political, social, cultural, and religious topics. We shall subject these movies to an anthropological analysis and explore whether the stories and images conveyed can be interpreted as a kind of “auto-ethnography”. Finally we shall discuss how such forms of auto-ethnography relate to other forms of cultural representation.
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