Film and Counterculture in the 2011 Egyptian Uprising

Examining Film and Counterculture in the Egyptian Revolution

This book examines how film articulates countercultural flows in the context of the Egyptian Revolution. The book interrogates the gap between radical politics and radical aesthetics by analyzing counterculture as a form, drawing upon Egyptian films produced between 2010 and 2016. The work offers a definition of counterculture which liberates the term from its Western frame and establishes a theoretical concept of counterculture which is more globally redolent.

Contributions and Focus

The book opens a door for further research of the Arab Uprising, arguing for a new and topical model of rebellion and struggle, and sheds light on the interaction between cinema and the street as well as between cultural narratives and politics in the context of the 2011 Egyptian uprising.

Key Questions

What is counterculture in the twenty-first century? What role does cinema play in this new notion of counterculture?