The Tools of the Cinematic Director and Their signification as Reflected in Foreign Films Shot in Islamic and Arab Societies "qualitative study"

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radio &tv. mass Communication, Al Azhar university

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The study aimed to monitor, analyze, and understand how Islamic and Arab societies are presented in foreign films that were produced or shot in Islamic and Arab countries and environments through the director's use of his cinematic tools, such as photography, costumes, decor, dialogue, lighting, and others. How did these films transmit the environment, culture, and Arab characters through the cinematic image and its verbal and visual connotations, which may be conscious or unconscious? Do they differ from the patterns of the Arab characters that appeared in foreign films produced in Hollywood? The researcher conducted a qualitative analysis of a number of shots that were used in a way that carries a cinematic and symbolic connotation for a number of (3) films that were shot in different Islamic and Arab countries and societies (Egypt, Morocco, Turkey). The study concluded that foreign films that were shot in Islamic and Arab societies transmitted the negatives and some positives of those countries. These films also presented Arab and Islamic characters in a way that does not differ much from their image in those films produced in Hollywood or in their original countries, as being evil, murderers, barbarians, and traitors. The director also used all the elements of the directing process in a technical and meaningful way to transmit a cinematic image of artistic quality and persuasion, which works to convince the eye, manipulate emotions, and arouse psychological excitement to deliver a stereotyped image of Muslims and Arabs.

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