Movies

Egypt has long been a presence in Western culture, and images of Egypt have been a mass-culture staple since the nineteenth century. Based upon information gleaned from isolated artifacts and fanciful travelers' tales, the "Egypt" known to the West was primarily a product of the…

The aesthetic traditions in the West may be considered bifurcated--oral and literate practices, folk and high arts, religious and secular expressions--one neither supplanting nor fully integrating the other, and yet conjoined in some movie practices. Employing a phenomenological…