Review of Carolina BRACCO (2024): Cine y género en el Mundo Árabe, Editorial Libretto, Buenos Aires, 352 p.

Abstract

This review explores the book Cinema and Gender in the Arab World by researcher and professor at the University of Buenos Aires, Carolina Bracco. The work is the result of her research in Cairo from 2007 to 2011 and analyzes the representations of diverse femininities and masculinities throughout Arab cinematic history, with special attention to Egypt, the epicentre of its spectacle and seventh art. The author proposes a study of the history of the twentieth and twenty-first century through cinema as a producer and reproducing device of images, representations and ideologies; and therefore, “an excellent ground to investigate how gender subjectivities, socially dominant representations and imaginaries around the notions of femininity and masculinity are constructed” (p. 31).