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cinej-98	Yunis, Alia	Film As Nation Building: The UAE Goes Into the Movie Business	2014	27	.pdf	application/pdf	9558	348	56	Through content analysis of UAE films and interviews with local filmmakers, framed through rhetoric scholar Kenneth Burke’s writing on symbolism, we look at how the UAE government wishes to be perceived abroad versus how its filmmakers—who have a co-dependent relationship with the government-- are portraying the country. ”2 Variants of these tragic peasants as pillars of the nation remain the hallmark of Egyptian cinema, UAE film, however, doesn’t fall conveniently into existing categories of national film, defined by Stephen Crofts as Third Cinema, European Model Art Cinemas, Third World and European Commercial Cinemas, Totalitarian Cinema and Regional/Ethnic Cinema.3 These categories and the theories around them were born of financial need an/or the need to break out of an existing pop cinema or Hollywood formula to explore taboo and divisive subjects, neither of which applies to UAE film.	cache/cinej-98.pdf	txt/cinej-98.txt