Beyond the male: Arab film

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Beyond the male: Arab film

1. If film holds up a mirror to society, then it’s no surprise that politics is never far from view in Arab cinema.

• holds up 应该是

2. This year at ALFILM, Berlin’s Arab film festival, the lens is trained on gender politics.

• trained on 对准
• gender politics 性别政治

3. “Room for a Man”, which tackles gay identity and discrimination in Lebanon, leads a special selection of nine features exploring Arab masculinity.

• tackle 解决,处理,对付
• gay identity 同性恋认同
• discrimination 歧视
• Lebanon 黎巴嫩
• masculinity 男性气质

4. Male lives preoccupy many of the other films on show at the festival, which opens on Wednesday.

• preoccupy 先占领

5. “Of Sheep and Men” is a tale of frustrated masculinity channelled into ram fighting, a sport popular in working-class Algiers. “Wajib” (“Duty”), a film by Palestinian director Annemarie Jacir, focuses on the relationship between a father and son, studying both filial and fatherly obligations in a political climate in which Palestinian men are often disempowered.

• frustrated 沮丧的；失败的
• Wajib 义务的行为；主命；强制
• filial 子女的
• obligation 义务；责任；债务；负担
• political climate 政治氛围；政治局面
• disempowered 侵夺

6. The Middle East may still be a man’s world, but these films show a more nuanced, and troubled, outlook for Arab men.

• Middle East 中东地区；中东国家
• nuanced 细微的；细致入微的
• outlook 前景；观点；人生观；世界观

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