صلاح ابو سيف. صلاح أبو سيف وتجذير الواقعية والتنوير في السينما المصرية / Salah Abu Seif and the Cultivation of Realism and Enlightenment in Egyptian Cinema on JSTOR

JSTOR is part of , a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways By making controversial films especially No Time for Love, 1962 that can be grasped by the general spectator, Abu Seif has contributed to the on-going debate on change, development and film theory
Some of his films tended towards naturalism Rayya and Sakina, 1953 , romanticism The Empty Pillow, 1957 , and even lyricism The Water-carrier Died, 1977 ; but within these orientations Abu Seif remains loyal to representing the social fabric of the society, bringing the spectator to the real world so as to question her or his reality It presents scholarly articles in Arabic, English and occasionally French

Many of Abu Seif's films are based on novels written by Naguib Mahfouz, Ihsan 'Abdel Quddus, Yusuf al-Siba'i, Yusuf al-Qa'id among others.

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صلاح ابوسيف .. رائد الواقعية
Alif does not publish book reviews or creative writing
صلاح ابوسيف .. رائد الواقعية
The new wave directors, such as Sharif 'Arafa, Radwan al-Kashif and Sa'id Hamid, who are now coming up and setting the trends of the new cinema, consider him also a mentor and continue the road he paved
مذكرات مجهولة لـ صلاح أبو سيف تكشف معاناته
He has not only left his impact on his generation of realist directors, but also on the new generation of film-makers who have become by now established: Shadi 'Abdel Salam, Ra'fat al-Mihi, Muhammad Khan, Ashraf Fahmi, 'Ali Badr Khan, 'Atif al-Tayyeb, 'Ali 'Abdel Khaliq and Dawud 'Abdel Sayyid--many of whom were students of his or assistants in his film-making
He has been consistent in his forty and some odd films to principles of enlightening and recovering the real The American University in Cairo Press is recognized as the leading English-language publisher of the Middle East, and publishes a wide range of scholarly monographs, reference works, and general books on ancient and modern Egypt and the Middle East, as well as Arabic literature in English translation, most notably the works of Egypt's Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz
The multiplicity of themes in his work stems from his desire to cover the richness and myriad experiences of Egyptian life

Each issue is dedicated to a specific theme.

مذكرات مجهولة لـ صلاح أبو سيف تكشف معاناته
Alif is a refereed multilingual journal appearing annually in the spring
صلاح أبو سيف وتجذير الواقعية والتنوير في السينما المصرية / Salah Abu Seif and the Cultivation of Realism and Enlightenment in Egyptian Cinema on JSTOR
Thus he has films that are unflinchingly realistic, showing the misery of the poor against the setting of popular quarters The Beast, 1954 ; others focus on the details of middle-class life I am Free, 1959 ; and yet others on class contradictions between peasants and feudal lords on one hand al-Usta Hasan, 1952 , and the horrors of capitalist monopolies on the other hand al-Futtuwa, 1957
مذكرات مجهولة لـ صلاح أبو سيف تكشف معاناته
Salah Abu Seif, born in 1915, is considered the prominent leader of the realist school in Egyptian cinema