Publication date:
13 August 2009Length of book:
392 pagesPublisher
Lexington BooksDimensions:
240x163mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9780739131855
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.
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.
It is a relief that at last Sandra Gayle Carter's magisterial and multi-dimensional work on Moroccan cinema is now available to film scholars, to media and cultural studies specialists, and to experts on Morocco and the contemporary 'Middle East'. History, political economy, textual analyses of numerous movies, global cinema influences from France, Egypt, Hollywood, Bollywood, Hong Kong: all are woven into this study. As are Morocco's shifting cultural geographies, from the marginalized forty-five percent of its Berber citizens, to the fifty percent of its population under twenty, to the thirty percent who live in one city, Casablanca. This book definitively raises the bar for studies of national cinemas.