New Approaches to Islam in Film

Kristian Petersen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Old Dominion University, USA.

• 1 Reframing the Study of Muslims and Islam in Film-Kristian Petersen; Part 1 New Sources; 2 Race, Torture Porn, and the Menacing Black Muslimness of Five Fingers-Mika'il A. Petin; 3 Muhammad as a Synthesis of Meditation and Action: A 1932 Screenplay by Nikos Kazantzakis-Panayiota Mini; 4 Being a (Muslim) Worker in the Egyptian Film Industry-Chihab El Khachab; Part 2 New Communities; 5 Puerto Rican Muslims in Post-9/11 Documentaries: Authenticity, Cultural Identity and Communal Belonging-Yamil Avivi; 6 Performing Identities: Intersections of Muslim Sexuality, Gender, and Race in Touch of Pink and Shades of Ray-Aman Agah; Part 3 New Perspectives; 7 "Oh, What if We Call Him Allah?" Ambiguous Orientalism in Cecil B. DeMille’s The Crusades-David Blanke; 8 Mystics in the Movies: Sufism in Global Cinema-Emily O'Dell; 9 Depicting the Prophet without Showing Him-Bilal Yorulmaz; Part 4 New Directions; 10 "I Can Take Your Eyes": Re-Envisioning Religion and Gender in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night-Megan Goodwin; 11 Negotiating Borders, Gender, and Identity: A Transnational Feminist Study of an Iranian Documentary-Najmeh Moradiyan-Rizi; 12 Film as a Scene of ‘Rupture’: Religion, Gender and Rights in Muslim Communities-Milja Radovic; Part 5 New Understandings of Conflict; 13 Islam, Gender, and Extremist Violence in Contemporary Egyptian Cinema-Clarissa Burt; 14 Citizenship, Ethnicity, and Religion: Muslim Immigrants in German Cinematic Arts-Anna Akasoy; 15 Together in the Midst of War: Muslim and Christian Coexistence in Lebanese Cinema-Sérgio Dias Branco

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