La imagen de la mujer en el cine egipcio de los 60. Un análisis a partir del personaje de la bailarina

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to propose an analysis of the image of women in Egyptian cinema based on the character of the dancer. For this, a study of the historical, political, and social situation of the proposed period is presented, identified within “the long 60s”, as Jameson understands the period between 1954 and 1975. Besides, the different factors that we believe fundamental to the approach to the construction of the character of the dancer are exposed.
Thus, we explore from primary and secondary sources, the elements that account for the political project carried out by Ŷamāl ‘Abd al-Nāṣir and its manifestations in specific policies around the construction of a mass culture linked to folklore and a feminine ideal linked to it. Complementarily, a corpus of films related to the representation of the character of the dancer in the cinema before and after the defeat of 1967 is analyzed to account for how this event influenced the creation of a degraded image of the dancer, linked to the moral degradation that the booming religious discourse was beginning to identify as the cause of defeat.