| What Moroccan Cinema?: A Historical and Critical Study, 1956D2006 Contributor(s): Carter, Sandra Gayle (Author) |
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ISBN: 0739131850 ISBN-13: 9780739131855 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $160.38 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2009 Annotation: From its early focus on documentary film and nation building to its more recent spotlight on contemporary culture and feature filmmaking, Moroccan cinema has undergone tremendous change since the country's independence in 1956. In What Moroccan Cinema? A Historical and Critical Study, 1956D2006, Sandra Gayle Carter chronicles the changes in Moroccan laws, institutions, ancillary influences, individuals active in the field, representative films, and film culture during this fifty-year span. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - General - Social Science | Media Studies - History | Africa - North |
| Dewey: 791.430 |
| LCCN: 2009013063 |
| Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.55 lbs) 392 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From its early focus on documentary film and nation building to its more recent spotlight on contemporary culture and feature filmmaking, Moroccan cinema has undergone tremendous change since the country's independence in 1956. In What Moroccan Cinema? A Historical and Critical Study, 1956-2006, Sandra Gayle Carter chronicles the changes in Moroccan laws, institutions, ancillary influences, individuals active in the field, representative films, and film culture during this fifty-year span. Focusing on Moroccan history and institutions relative to the cinema industry such as television, newspaper criticism, and Berber videomaking, What Moroccan Cinema? is an intriguing study of the ways in which three historical periods shaped the Moroccan cinema industry. Carter provides an insightful and thorough treatment of the cinema institution, discussing exhibition and distribution, censorship, and cinema clubs and caravans. Carter grounds her analysis by exploring representative films of each respective era. The groundbreaking analysis offered in What Moroccan Cinema? will prove especially valuable to those in film and Middle Eastern studies. |