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"Dans des pays caractérisés par une profusion d’images essentiellement venues d’autres continents, et par une production très inégale, voire inexistante, quels ont été les modèles dominants de production ? Quels sont ceux que les mutations en cours font émerger ? Quels sont les enjeux é
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Roots of the New Arab Film
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2018), xix, 292 pp.
"Roots of the New Arab Film deals with the generation of filmmakers from across North Africa and the Middle East who created an international awareness of Arab film from the mid-1980s onwards. These seminal filmmakers experienced the moment of national independence first-hand in their youth and reta
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Negotiating Dissidence: The Pioneering Women of Arab Documentary
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2018), vii, 238 pp.
"In spite of harsh censorship, conservative morals and a lack of investment, women documentarists in the Arab world have found ways to subtly negotiate dissidence in their films, something that is becoming more apparent since the ‘Arab Revolutions’. In this book, Stefanie Van de Peer traces the
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Arab Cinema Travels: Transnational Syria, Palestine, Dubai and Beyond
London: Palgrave Macmillan; British Film Institute (bfi) (2016), ix, 221 pp.
"Starting with the inventive traditions of Arabic travelogues, the text traces the manifold pathways that converge in the cinemas of Syria, Palestine and Dubai. Syrian production bursts out of long-held practices of studying abroad, this time in the film schools of the Eastern Bloc. Palestinian movi
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Ten Arab Filmmakers: Political Dissent and Social Critique
Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (2015), xiii, 254 pp.
"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, Palestin
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The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas
New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xiv, 302 pp.
Les cinémas du Maghreb et leurs publics
Paris: L'Harmattan (2012), 344 pp.
Arab Media: Globalization and Emerging Media Industries
Deep Insights
Cambridge, UK; Maldon, Mass.: Polity Press (2011), ix, 206 pp.
"This book provides a clear and authoritative introduction to the emerging Arab media industries in the context of globalization and its impacts, with a focus on publishing, press, broadcasting, cinema and new media. Through detailed discussions of the regulation and economics of these industries, t
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Palestinian Cinema: Landscape, Trauma and Memory
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2008), vii, 224 pp.
"One of the best sources for understanding Palestinian culture is the cinema, which has strived to delineate Palestinian history and to portray the daily lives of Palestinian men, women, and children. Here, an Israeli and a Palestinian scholar, in a rare and welcome collaboration, follow the develop
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The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Popular Culture: North Africa and the Middle East
Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press (2007), xv, 389 pp.
African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara
Deep Insights
Edinburgh; Bloomington: Edinburgh University Press; Indiana University Press (2006), xv, 224 pp.
Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2005), xv, 278 pp.
"[...] Roy Armes examines the political and cultural context of the films and the film industry in the post-independence era. Since the birth of cinema, North Africa has been the site of countless European and U.S. film productions. This book, however, focuses on the postcolonial period, when indige
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Pop Culture Arab World! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle
Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO (2005), xiv, 376 pp.
Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film
London: Routledge (2001), xiv, 607 pp.
"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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Le Cinéma et les Arabes
Jeune Afrique (Paris), issue 409 (1968), p. 51
"Pour les Arabes, le cinéma est une industrie, un commerce et un spectacle — Il constitue aussi un moyen d'information et d'ouverture culturelle sur le monde, ce qui lui vaut d'être utilisé de plus en plus fréquemment comme instrument de pédagogie et d'orientation — En tant que mode d'expre
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The Cinema in the Arab Countries
Beirut: Inter-Arab Centre of Cinema & Television (1966), 290 pp.
"Anthology, prepared for UNESCO, which provides the first general view of the cinema in the Arab world. It is divided into six sections: the cinema and Arab culture, history of the Arab cinema, geography of the Arab cinema, problems and future development, recommendations, film lists and statistics.
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Viabilité d'un Cinéma né chétif, face à une Télévision née géante dans les Pays arabes
In: Cinéma et Culture Arabes. Conférences de la Table Ronde sous les Auspices et avec la Participation de l'Unesco. Beyrouth, octobre 1964
Beyrouth: Centre Interarabe du Cinéma et de la Télévision (1965), pp. 123-159
"Dans les pays arabes et ceux en voie de développement, le spectacle cinématographique est en baisse — Ceux qui veulent introduire le cinéma dans leur pays sont obligés de se retirer rapidement devant une télévision née géante qui a tous les encouragements des Etats et de la grande majorit
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