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 Sherman Library  PN1993.5.M638 C56 2007    AVAILABLE  
Title The cinema of North Africa and the Middle East / edited by Gönül Dönmez-Colin ; [preface by Abbas Kiarostami].
OCLC 148788597
ISBN 9781905674114
1905674112
9781905674107 (pbk.)
1905674104 (pbk.)
Publisher London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2007.
Description xii, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
LC Subject heading/s Motion pictures -- Middle East -- History.
Motion pictures -- Africa, North -- History.
Motion picture producers and directors -- Middle East.
Motion picture producers and directors -- Africa, North.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-286) and index.
Summary "Twenty-four essays on individual selected films, many by scholars and writers based in the region. It explores established film cultures such as those of Turkey and Iran, and also nascent cinemas such as those of Israel, Palestine and Syria. . . . Selected films include Cairo Station (Egypt, 1958), Umat (Turkey, 1970), The Runner (Iran, 1989), . . . Once upon a time, Beriut (Lebanon, 1994), Chronicle of a disappearance (Palestine, 1996), Circle of dreams (Israel, 2000), Ten (Iran, 2002) and Uzak (Turkey, 2003)."--P. 4 of cover.
Contents Preface / Abbas Kiarostami -- Introduction / Gönül Dönmez-Colin -- Ghazal al-banat = Candy Floss / Kay Dickinson -- Bab el-Hadid = Cairo Station / Lina Khatib -- Al-Momia = The mummy / Iman Haman -- Umut = Hope / Gönül Dönmez-Colin -- Gelin = The bride / Ayla Kanbur -- Tabiat-e Bijan = Still life / Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa -- Traversées = Crossing over / Roy Armes -- Davandeh = The runner / Hamid Dabashi -- Lo Sam Zaylin = I don't give a damn / Yehuda Judd Ne'eman -- Nujum al-Nahar = Stars in broad daylight / Rasha Salti -- Docharkheh Savar = The cyclist / Gönül Dönmez-Colin -- Bab al-sama Maftouh = A door to the sky / Florence Martin -- Youcef ou la Légende du septième dormant = Youssef or the Legend of the seventh sleeper / Roy Armes -- Samt al-qusur = Silences of the palace / Viola Shafik -- Kan ya ma kan Beirut = Once upon a time, Beirut / Lina Khatib -- Segell Ikhtifa = Chronicle of a disappearance / Haim Bresheeth -- Ekiya = The bandit / Nezih Erdogan -- Beyrouth al Gharbiyya = West Beirut / Mona Deeley -- Kikar Hahalomot = Circle of dreams / Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber -- Kippur / Nitzan Ben-Shaul -- Muwatin, mukhbir wa harami = Citizen, detective and thief / Viola Shafik -- Ten / Gönül Dönmez-Colin -- Uzak = Distant / S. Ruken Öztürk -- Forget Baghdad : Jews and Arabs - the Iraqi connection / Ruth Tsoffar.
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