This article explores the coloniality of gender, sexuality, and desire, and the links between nationalist and commercial imperatives, in the making of Egypt's first sound film, or talkie, in 1932. Through an analysis of the politics, economy, and memory of Yusuf Wahbi's film Awlad al-Dhawat (Sons of the Aristocrats), it shows how the interplay between new sound technologies, the global film trade, and nationalist and racialized narratives of gender and resistance shaped the contours of ideal femininity and masculinity during the interwar period in Egypt. The article also shows how the film's representations formed at the intersection between the filmmakers’ attempts to challenge colonial stereotyping and their efforts to capture an ever-expanding global film market. Often neglected in cinema scholarship, early filmmaking in Egypt, I argue, is critical to understanding wider processes of nation formation and gendered characterizations.

中文翻译：

---

声音与欲望：埃及第一部谈话中的种族、性别和侮辱

本文探讨了 1932 年埃及第一部有声电影或有声电影的制作过程中性别、性欲和欲望的殖民性，以及民族主义与商业需求之间的联系。 通过对优素福的政治、经济和记忆的分析Wahbi 的电影 Awlad al-Dhawat（贵族之子）展示了新声音技术、全球电影贸易以及民族主义和种族化的性别和抵抗叙事之间的相互作用如何塑造了两次世界大战期间理想女性气质和男性气质的轮廓。埃及。这篇文章还展示了这部电影的表现如何在电影制片人挑战殖民刻板印象的尝试与他们为捕捉不断扩大的全球电影市场的努力之间形成的。在电影奖学金、埃及的早期电影制作中经常被忽视，