Sunday, September 28, 2025

A New Book by Houssine Yarti

FROM SHADOW TO SPOTLIGHT: The Evolution of Women’s Roles in Cinema Through the Decades
His current work has just been published by Barcelona Literary Publishing as part of a series on cinema by Houssine Yarti.

FROM SHADOW TO SPOTLIGHT: The Evolution of Women’s Roles in Cinema Through the Decades, the book becomes the third in a procession which began with the CRAFTING OF THE IMPOSSIBLE: A Journey through Visual Effects, which dealt with the influence of technology on the movie making process, and then VIEWFINDER: In the World of Global Cinema, where Yarti made comparisons of the experiences of cinema in America, Europe, the Arab world, Korea and India. This new version places women in the middle of its attention, and it follows the significant changes which the silver screen has undergone during its existence.

Yarti examines the display of women in early films as limited to the stereotypical or supporting role, in many cases connected to the narrow, traditional or sentimentalism of representation, and the path to more complicated and deep images has taken a long.

The book features classic Hollywood films, the European waves of cinema and even Arab and Asian cinema in that the image of women on the screen was in interaction with the social, political and cultural transformation of each period.

The book does not treat cinema as a separate art but as a living document of the society dealing with women: at other moments a mirror that represents a current reality, at other moments a moving force that creates the existing reality. In this regard, the author offers a critical standpoint which sees cinema as a larger cultural trend that covers more than the screen.

Yarti emphasizes that it is not an individual book, but a part of a bigger project, which attempts to treat the issue of cinema as a form of cultural phenomenon that intersects with technology, politics, identity, and collective memory. He also discloses that a second book is also in the pipeline that will be published in 2026, which once again provides support to the continuation of this grand research project.

Ultimately, the author thanks Barcelona Literaria Publishing that has always supported him, his family, friends, and readers and states that every book he presents to them is not just another printed piece of work but it is the experience of shadows and light, of knowledge and passion, of arts, and life.

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A New Book by Houssine Yarti

FROM SHADOW TO SPOTLIGHT: The Evolution of Women’s Roles in Cinema Through the Decades His current work has just been published by Barcelona...