New Voices in Arab Cinema [Paperback]

New Voices in Arab Cinemafocuses on contemporary filmmaking since the 1980s, but also considers the longer history of Arab cinema. Taking into consideration film from the Middle East and North Africa and giving a special nod to films produced since the Arab Spring and the Syrian crisis, Roy Armes explores themes such as modes of production, national cinemas, the role of the state and private industry on film, international developments in film, key filmmakers, and the validity of current notions like globalization, migration and immigration, and exile. This landmark book offers both a coherent, historical overview and an in-depth critical analysis of Arab filmmaking.

Roy Armes is Professor Emeritus of Film at Middlesex University. He has published widely on world cinema and is author ofDictionary of African Filmmakers(IUP, 2008).

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Characteristics of the New Cinema

2. The Filmmakers
The New Importance of Women Filmmakers
Questions of Identity
Training
Funding
A Cosmopolitan Generation

3. Documentary
Palestine
Lebanon
Egypt and The Maghreb
Iraq
Syria

4. Feature Filmmaking
Algeria
Morocco
Tunisia
Egypt
Lebanon
Palestine
Iraq
Syria
The Gulf

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015

This overview of Arab filmmakers comes from an author with a proven record of valuable and accessible publications.

Roy Armes' scholarly productivity and original contributions to film studies continue without pause. Serves as a corrective and counter-reading of received views and stereotypic assumptions about the Arab world.

[P]rovides a panoramic overview of the cinematic works of the contemporary generation of Al“'