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PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Nation, the State, and the Cinema2. The freedom to be different, to choose your own life: Man of Ashes (Nouri Bouzid, 1986)3. Laughter in the Dark: Sexuality and the Police State in Halfaouine (F rid Boughedir, 1990)4. Sexual Allegories of National Identity: Bezness (Nouri Bouzid, 1992)5. Colonizer and the Colonized: Silences of the Palace (Moufida Tlatli, 1994)6. It takes two of us to discover truth: Essa da (Mohamed Zran, 1996)7. It takes a lot of unruly individuals to make a free people: Bedwin Hacker (Nadia El Fani, 2002)8. Inventing the Postcolonial Nation/Constructing a Usable Past: TV Is Coming (Moncef Dhouib, 2006)9. Destiny answers the people's call for life, darkness will be dispelled, and chains will breakNotesFilmographyGlossaryBibliographyIndex

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