What can film studies bring to the study of Arab culture, politics, and history? The past ten years have seen an increase in historical, theoretical, and methodological exchanges between Middle East studies and film and media studies. The sub-field of “Arab film studies” (Ginsberg and Lippard 2020, viii) has emerged as one possible intersection of these two fields of inquiry. This is illustrated by two recent book series, the Cinema and Media Cultures in the Middle East series at Peter Lang Publishing (edited by Terri Ginsberg and Chris Lippard) and the Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema series at Palgrave Macmillan (edited by Nezar Andary and Samirah Alkassim). Waleed Mahdi's Arab Americans in Film (2020) and Peter Limbrick's Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi (2020) consolidate these exchanges across ethnic studies, area studies, political sciences, (art) history, and film and media studies. While Mahdi primarily positions himself from within ethnic studies and Limbrick is first a film scholar, both have published in reference journals in film studies, Middle East studies, and cultural studies.

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电影中的阿拉伯裔美国人：从好莱坞和埃及的刻板印象到自我表现

电影研究能为阿拉伯文化、政治和历史的研究带来什么？在过去十年中，中东研究与电影和媒体研究之间的历史、理论和方法学交流有所增加。“阿拉伯电影研究”的子领域（Ginsberg 和 Lippard 2020，viii）已成为这两个研究领域的一个可能交叉点。最近的两本书系列说明了这一点，即彼得朗出版社的中东电影和媒体文化系列（由 Terri Ginsberg 和 Chris Lippard 编辑）和 Palgrave Macmillan 的 Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema 系列（由 Nezar Andary 和 Samirah 编辑阿尔卡西姆）。瓦利德·马赫迪电影中的阿拉伯裔美国人（2020）和彼得林布里克的作为世界电影的阿拉伯现代主义：Moumen Smihi 的电影(2020) 巩固这些跨种族研究、地区研究、政治学、（艺术）历史以及电影和媒体研究的交流。虽然马赫迪主要将自己定位于种族研究领域，而林布里克首先是一名电影学者，但两人都曾在电影研究、中东研究和文化研究的参考期刊上发表过文章。