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Film: 1920 to Present: Middle East

By: Andrea L. Stanton
In: Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia
Edited by: Andrea L. Stanton, Edward Ramsamy, Peter J. Seybolt & Carolyn M. Elliott
Subject:Sociology of Culture, Area Studies (general), Social & Cultural Anthropology
Keywords:audiences; cinemas; Egypt; film industry; films; Lebanon; palestine

When it comes to film, the Middle East was one of the world's early adopting regions, with films shown as early as 1896. Perhaps unsurprisingly, they were shown first in Egypt—but by 1912, films were being shown in Damascus as well, ...

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  Stanton, A. (2012). Film: 1920 to present: middle east. In A. L. StantonE. Ramsamy, & P. J. Seybolt (Eds.), Cultural sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An encyclopedia (Vol. 1, pp. I266-I267). SAGE Publications, Inc., https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n135
  
  Stanton, Andrea L. "Film: 1920 to Present: Middle East." In Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia, edited by Stanton, Andrea L., Edward Ramsamy, and Peter J. Seybolt, I266-I267. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n135.
  
  Stanton, A. 2012. Film: 1920 to Present: Middle East. In: Andrea L. Stanton, Edward Ramsamy and Peter J. Seybolt Editors, 2012. Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia, Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. pp. I266-I267 Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n135> [Accessed 16 May 2022].
  
  Stanton, Andrea L. "Film: 1920 to Present: Middle East." Cultural Sociology of the Middle East, Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia. Edited by Andrea L. StantonEdward Ramsamy and Peter J. Seybolt. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2012, pp. I266-I267. SAGE Knowledge. 16 May 2022, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452218458.n135.
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