Hanan al Shaykh’s autobiographical account of her mother Kamila, The Locust and the Bird, highlights the inter-relatedness between cinematic narratives and the life of the main character. Fascinated and influenced by romantic melodramas of the golden age of Egyptian cinema, Kamila builds her life and life narrative upon the fictitious worlds presented to her in films of the period, proving the significance of this audiovisual medium in the build-up of her character on the educational, social and cultural levels. Keywords: Egyptian cinema, autobiography, life and life-narrative, gender, visual arts.
Moussa, H. (2019). Seeing is Living: The role of Cinema in The Locust and the Bird. University Studies in Humanities, 1, 93-100. Available from http://cresh.ul.edu.lb/?page_id=2005
MLA
Moussa, Hiba. “Seeing is Living: The role of Cinema in The Locust and the Bird”. University Studies in Humanities 1 (2019): 93-100. Web.
BIBTEX
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title={Seeing is Living: The role of Cinema in The Locust and the Bird},
author={Moussa, Hiba},
journal={University Studies in Humanities},
volume={1},
pages={93-100},
year={2019},
month={09},
issn = {2707-1863 (electronic)},
publisher={Center for Research and Studies at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences at the Lebanese University},
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url = {http://cresh.ul.edu.lb/?page_id=2005},
journal_url={http://cresh.ul.edu.lb/?page_id=80},
}
