Popular Cinema and Conceptualizing Class and Social Change
Popular Cinema and Conceptualizing Class and Social Change
Chahine made twelve films in the 1950s. Chahine's cinema never adopted a dogmatic stand on the issues of class and class divisions; rather, it acknowledged the common areas of interest among people from different classes. His film career immediately followed his return from the United States with an acting diploma from the Pasadena Playhouse in 1948. Some of Chahine's early popular melodramas and musicals of the 1950s certainly alluded to and occasionally criticized the gap between social strata in Egyptian pre-revolution society, or mocked the bourgeois lifestyle, or described the workers' environment in a more or less “realistic” fashion. Chahine explores the working conditions on the docks of the port of Alexandria through a story about a clash between a young worker and his boss in Sira'fi-l-mina.
Keywords: Pasadena Playhouse, melodramas, pre-revolution society, Sira'fi-l-mina, Alexandria
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