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Ten Arab Filmmakers

Ten Arab Filmmakers

by JosefGugler (Author)

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    Hardcover 2015

    $96.08
Synopsis

Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of the best of Arab cinema, offering studies of leading directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The filmmakers profiled here represent principal national cinemas of the Arab world-Algeria, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, and Syria. Although they have produced many of the region's most-renowned films and gained recognition at major international festivals, with few exceptions these filmmakers have received little critical attention. All ten share a concern with giving image and voice to people struggling against authoritarian regimes, patriarchal traditions, or religious fundamentalism-theirs is a cinema engage.

The featured directors are Daoud Abd El-Sayed, Merzak Allouache, Nabil Ayouch, Youssef Chahine, Mohamed Chouikh, Michel Khleifi, Nabil Maleh, Yousry Nasrallah, Jocelyne Saab, and Elia Suleiman.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 27 May 2015
ISBN 10: 0253016444
ISBN 13: 9780253016447

Media Reviews
Gugler has done an admirable job taking the reader on a complex but passionate journey through the work of ten Arab fi lmmakers. * Black Camera *
Ten Arab Filmmakers contributes in a positive, meaningful way to the general advancement of MENA studies in American institutions of higher education, encouraging students and the general public to learn about the Arab world from diverse perspectives. * Journal of North African Studies *
Illustrated with arresting stills and superbly edited, this volume is sharp, incisive, and thought provoking. . . . Essential. * Choice *
Ten Arab Filmmakers represents a timely and important resource for educators, scholars, and students. * Studies in Eastern European Cinema *
Author Bio

Josef Gugler is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of African Film: Re-Imagining a Continent (IUP, 2003) and editor of Film in the Middle East and North Africa: Creative Dissidence.