Arab and African film making /
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Author / Creator: | Malkmus, Lizbeth |
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Imprint: | London ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books, 1991. |
Description: | ix, 264 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Motion pictures -- Arab countries Motion pictures -- Africa Motion pictures. Africa. Arab countries. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1316864 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. Context. 1. Cinema Under Colonialism. The advent of the cinema. The other new media. European filming and recording. European fictional approaches. The colonial film units. Indigenous culture under colonialism. African and Arab literature. The beginnings of Arab film-making. Developments in popular music. 2. Cinema After Independence. Introduction: national identity. Film and literature. Film and popular music. Film and broadcasting. Film and the state. Contexts of production. The individual film-maker
- Pt. 2. Arab Film. 3. The Epic. Heroes. Marginals. Heroines. Violence. Sport. Anti-hero/ine. Anti-epic. Sample film: Omar Gatlato. 4. The Comic. Gags. Situations. Analogies. Derision. Sample comedy: Four on an Important Mission. 5. The Dramatic. Melodrama. Futuwwa. Dissolution. Sample drama: Cairo: Central Station. 6. Scene. Data. Prescription/description. Metonymy and Metaphor. Egyptian realism old and new. Camera. Sample film: Save What We Can. 7. Sound. Functions. Tensions. Performance. Voice. Sample film: Events of the Coming Year. 8. Sign. Madness. Myth. Memory. Figures. Tableaux. Sample film: The Drifters
- Pt. 3. African Film. 9. Voice. Voices off. Narrative voices. 10. Space. The organizing eye. The politics of space. 11. Story. Structural principles. The individual and the group. Dictionary of Film-makers.