Resumen de La Historia y el discurso político en el cine egipcio

Giuseppe Gariazzo, María Silvia Bazzoli

• Egyptian cinema originally came into being as the expression of a national bourgeoisie class, leading to the foundation of a film industry which featured comedies and musicals as its key genres. This paper, however, focuses on films in the history of Egyptian cinema which have attempted to shed light on the social and political reality of the region. Realistic films of this kind are an exception, due not only to the characteristic nature of the Egyptian film industry itself, but also to the threat of censorship. It was only in the aftermath of the Six Day War, with the defeat of values which had theretofore preserved a kind of cohesion among the different Egyptian social classes, that the cinema of this country came to adopt a more critical attitude towards the reality of Egyptian society.