@article{437170,
      recid = {437170},
      author = {Gugler, Josef.},
      title = {Film in the Middle East and North Africa creative  dissidence / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {University of Texas Press,},
      address = {Austin :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 369 p.) :},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {This is the first study to cover cinemas from Iran to  Morocco. Nine essays present the region's major national  cinemas, devoting special attention to the work of  directors who have given image and voice to dissent from  political regimes, from patriarchal customs, from  fundamentalist movements, and from the West. These country  essays are complemented by in-depth discussions of eighteen  films that have been selected for both their excellence and  their critical engagement with pressing current issues. The  introduction provides a comprehensive overview of  filmmaking throughout the region, including important films  produced outside the national cinemas. The long history of  Iranian cinema, its international renown, and the politics  of directors confronting the state, earns it a special  place in this volume. The other major emphasis is on the  Israel/Palestine conflict, featuring films by Palestinian  directors, Israelis, and an Egyptian working in Syria.  Twenty authors collaborated on this book, among them Walter  Armbrust, Roy Armes, Kevin Dwyer, Eric Egan, Nurith Gertz,  Lina Khatib, Florence Martin, and Nadia Yaqub. About half  of the contributors are film scholars; the others range  across literary studies and the social sciences to two film  directors and a novelist. Beyond differences in  disciplinary orientation, there is considerable variation  among contributors in the perspectives that inform their  writing. They offer an illuminating range of approaches to  the cinemas of the region. -- Jacket.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/437170},
}