Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East - A Dictionary

Informationen zum Autor Roy Armes Klappentext In this landmark dictionary! Roy Armes details the scope and diversity offilmmaking across the Arab Middle East. Listing more than 550 feature films by morethan 250 filmmakers! and short and documentary films by another 900 filmmakers! thisvolume covers the film production in Iraq! Jordan! Lebanon! Palestine! Syria! andthe Gulf States. An introduction by Armes locates film and filmmaking traditions inthe region from early efforts in the silent era to state-funded productions byisolated filmmakers and politically engaged documentarians. Part 1 listsbiographical information about the filmmakers and their feature films. Part 2details key feature films from the countries represented. Part 3 indexesfeature-film titles in English and French with details about the director! date! andcountry of origin. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive reference to film production in the Arab Middle East Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Note on Layout List of Acronyms Introduction: Filmmaking in Divided Lands Part 1. Dictionary of Filmmakers Part 2. Feature-Film Chronologies Part 3. Index of Feature-Film Titles Bibliography

Product details

• Authors: Roy Armes, Armes Roy
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.08.2010
• EAN: 9780253355188
• ISBN: 978-0-253-35518-8
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Naher und Mittlerer Osten, Fernsehen, TV, Nachschlagewerke: biografische Information (Who's Who)