Revolutionary Melodrama: Popular Film and Civic Identity in Nasser's Egypt
Introduction: "We've Lost a Lot": Cinema and Longing Since Nasser 1. Playing to the People: Studios, Stars, and Social Texts 2. God and the Censor: History and Politics in Revolutionary Film 3. Revolutionary Melodrama: Torch Songs and Other Tropes 4. Free to be "Bad": The Revolution's New Woman Onscreen 5. New Peasants, Old Ways: Tradition and Nation in Nasserist Cinema 6. Unhappy Endings: The Rise and Fall of Nasserist Cinema 7. Nostalgia in Black-and-White: Nasser's Streets and Public Memory References Index