The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas [Paperback]

Using case studies from Nigeria, Qatar, the United States, the West Indies, and others, the contributors to this volume examine aspects such as audience response, film education for children, and the impact on crime in the various studios, clubs, film festivals, NGOs, peripatetic workshops, and alternative film schools where filmmaking is taught.More than Film School: Why the Full Spectrum of Practice-based Film Education Warrants Attention; Mette Hjort PART I: AFRICA 1. Audience Response in Film Education; Anton Basson, Keyan Tomaselli, Gerda Dullaart 2. Bridging the Gap: Answering the Questions of Crime, Youth Unemployment, and Poverty through Film Training in Benin, Nigeria; Osakue Stevenson Omoera 3. Global Interchange: the Same, but Different; Rod Stoneman PART II: THE MIDDLE EAST 4. Branch-Campus Initiatives to Train Media-Makers and Journalists: Northwestern University's Branch Campus in Doha, Qatar; Hamid Naficy 5. Film Education in Palestine Post-Oslo: The Experience of Shashat; Alia Arasoughly 6. Art and Networks: The National Film School of Denmark's 'Middle East Project'; Mette Hjort PART III: THE AMERICAS 7. Goodbye to Film School: Please Close the Door on Your Way Out; Toby Miller 8. 'An Arrow Not a Target': Film Process and Processing at the Independent Imaging Retreat; Scott MacKenzie 9. The School for Every World: Internationalism and Residual Socialism at EICTV; Nicholas Balaisis 10. Building Film Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean: Film Education at the University of the West Indies; Christopher Meir 11. Practice-based Film Education for Children: Teaching and Learning for Creativity, Citizenship, and Participation; Armida de la Garza 12. Audiovisual Educational Practice in Latin America's Peripheries; George Y?dice

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Alia Arasoughly, Shashat, PalestineNicholas Balaisis, Trent University, CanadaAnton Basson, South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, South AfricaGerda Dullaart, South African Schooll4