Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. Chapter One. The nation, the State, and the Cinema 1
6. Chapter Two. “The freedom to be different, to choose your own life”: Man of Ashes (Nouri Bouzid, 1986) 40
7. Chapter Three. Laughter in the dark: Sexuality and the Police State in Halfaouine (Férid Boughedir, 1990) 67
8. Chapter Four. Sexual allegories of national identity: Bezness (Nouri Bouzid, 1992) 99
9. Chapter Five. The Colonizer and the Colonized: The Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli, 1994) 123
10. Chapter Six. “it takes two of us to discover truth”: Essaïda (Mohamed Zran, 1996) 157
11. Chapter Seven. “It takes a lot of unruly individuals to make a free people”: Bedwin Hacker (Nadia el Fani, 2002) 191
12. Chapter Eight. Inventing the Postcolonial nation/Constructing a usable Past: The TV Is Coming (Moncef Dhouib, 2006) 223
13. Chapter Nine. “Destiny answers the people’s call for life, darkness will be dispelled, and chains will break” 259
14. Notes 281
15. Filmography 341
16. Glossary 349
17. Bibliography 353
18. Index 369
19. Backmatter 381