文档介绍：Armes
Roy Armes is Professor Emeritus of Film “Constitutes a ‘counter-reading’ of
Film and Media • Middle East
at Middlesex University. He has published received views and assumptions
widely on world cinema. He is author of
Arab FilmmakersArab
Dictionary of African Filmmakers (IUP, 2008). The fragmented history of Arab about the absence of Arab cinema
Arab Filmmakers in the Middle East.”
—Michael T. Martin,
Middle Eastern cinema—with its Black Film Center/Archive,
of the Indiana University
powerful ponent—
reflects all too clearly the fragmented Middle East
history of the Arab peoples and is in- “Esential for libraries and useful
for individual readers who will
prehensible only when this find essays on subjects rarely treat-
history is taken into account. While ed in English.”
—Kevin Dwyer,
neighboring countries, such as Tur- A D i c t i o n a r y American University in Cairo
key, Israel, and Iran, have coherent of the
national film histories which have In this landmark dictionary, Roy Armes
details the scope and diversity of filmmak-
prehensively documented, ing across the Arab Middle East. Listing
Middle East more than 550 feature films by more than
the Arab Middle East has been given 250 filmmakers, and short and documentary
comparatively little attention. films by another 900 filmmakers, this vol-
ume covers the film production in Iraq, Jor-
—from the introduction dan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and the Gulf
States. An introduction by Armes locates
film and filmmaking traditions in the region
from early efforts in the silent era to state-
funded productions by isolated filmmakers
and politically engaged documentarians.
Part 1 lists biographical information about
the filmmakers and their feature films.
INDIANA Part 2 details key feature films from the
Roy Armes countries represented.
University Press Part 3 indexes feature-film titles in English
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