"The Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film is a unique, one volume work which illuminates a fascinating variety of cinema which is little known outside its own area. The Encyclopedia is divided into nine chapters, each written by a leading scholar in the field. Each chapter
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covers the history and major issues of film within that area, as well as providing bibliographies of the leading films, directors and actors. The areas covered are: Central Asia, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, The Magreb, Palestine, Turkey. It contains more than 60 black and white photographs of featured films, includes references and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, and the volume concludes with comprehensive name, film and general indexes." (Publisher description)
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"How to Set Up a Film Festival has been written in response to the increasing number of film festivals being set up in the UK. It is not exhaustive but is intended to provide a broad framework for planning and to guide you through some of the questions you need to consider when starting out." (Intro
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duction)
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"Conjunto de entrevistas -y biofilmografías- con destacadas directoras mexicanas (María Novaro, Busi Cortés, Dana Rotberg, Eva López-Sánchez y Guita Schyfter), además de otras dos con Alfredo Joskowicz y Hugo Hiriart." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
"Der erste Teil verfolgt die Entwicklung des afrikanischen Kinos von der kolonialen Vereinnahmung hin zum Afrozentrismus. Im zweiten Teil des Buches werden einzelne Filme vorgestellt und analysiert, wobei besonders auf typisch afrikanische Stilmittel wie der Gebrauch von Stille, der mündlichen Übe
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rlieferung und des Humors eingegangen wird. Im letzten Teil des Buches untersucht der Autor den sozialen und ökonomischen Kontext der afrikanischen Film- und Fernsehindustrie." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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