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The Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East / edited by Gonul Donmez-Colin ; [preface by Abbas Kiarostami].

Contributor(s): Series: 24 framesPublication details: London ; New York : Wallflower Press, 2007.Description: xii, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781905674114
  • 1905674112
  • 9781905674107 (pbk.)
  • 1905674104 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/096
LOC classification:
  • PN1993.5.A35 C523 2007
Contents:
Preface / Abbas Kiarostami -- Introduction / Gonul Donmez-Colin -- Ghazal al-banat = Candy Floss / Kay Dickinson -- Bab el-Hadid = Cairo Station / Lina Khatib -- Al-Momia = The mummy / Iman Haman -- Umut = Hope / Gonul Donmez-Colin -- Gelin = The bride / Ayla Kanbur -- Tabiat-e Bijan = Still life / Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa -- Travers�es = Crossing over / Roy Armes -- Davandeh = The runner / Hamid Dabashi -- Lo Sam Zaylin = I don't give a damn / Yehuda Judd Ne'eman -- Nujum al-Nahar = Stars in broad daylight / Rasha Salti -- Docharkheh Savar = The cyclist / Gonul Donmez-Colin -- Bab al-sama Maftouh = A door to the sky / Florence Martin -- Youcef ou la L�gende du septi�me dormant = Youssef or the Legend of the seventh sleeper / Roy Armes -- Samt al-qusur = Silences of the palace / Viola Shafik -- Kan ya ma kan Beirut = Once upon a time, Beirut / Lina Khatib -- Segell Ikhtifa = Chronicle of a disappearance / Haim Bresheeth -- Eskiya = The bandit / Nezih Erdogan -- Beyrouth al Gharbiyya = West Beirut / Mona Deeley -- Kikar Hahalomot = Circle of dreams / Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber -- Kippur / Nitzan Ben-Shaul -- Muwatin, mukhbir wa harami = Citizen, detective and thief / Viola Shafik -- Ten / Gonul Donmez-Colin -- Uzak = Distant / S. Ruken Ozturk -- Forget Baghdad : Jews and Arabs - the Iraqi connection / Ruth Tsoffar
Summary: "Twenty-four essays on individual selected films, many by scholars and writers based in the region. It explores established film cultures such as those of Turkey and Iran, and also nascent cinemas such as those of Israel, Palestine and Syria. . . . Selected films include Cairo Station (Egypt, 1958), Umat (Turkey, 1970), The Runner (Iran, 1989), . . . Once upon a time, Beriut (Lebanon, 1994), Chronicle of a disappearance (Palestine, 1996), Circle of dreams (Israel, 2000), Ten (Iran, 2002) and Uzak (Turkey, 2003)."--P. 4 of cover.

Preface / Abbas Kiarostami -- Introduction / Gonul Donmez-Colin -- Ghazal al-banat = Candy Floss / Kay Dickinson -- Bab el-Hadid = Cairo Station / Lina Khatib -- Al-Momia = The mummy / Iman Haman -- Umut = Hope / Gonul Donmez-Colin -- Gelin = The bride / Ayla Kanbur -- Tabiat-e Bijan = Still life / Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa -- Travers�es = Crossing over / Roy Armes -- Davandeh = The runner / Hamid Dabashi -- Lo Sam Zaylin = I don't give a damn / Yehuda Judd Ne'eman -- Nujum al-Nahar = Stars in broad daylight / Rasha Salti -- Docharkheh Savar = The cyclist / Gonul Donmez-Colin -- Bab al-sama Maftouh = A door to the sky / Florence Martin -- Youcef ou la L�gende du septi�me dormant = Youssef or the Legend of the seventh sleeper / Roy Armes -- Samt al-qusur = Silences of the palace / Viola Shafik -- Kan ya ma kan Beirut = Once upon a time, Beirut / Lina Khatib -- Segell Ikhtifa = Chronicle of a disappearance / Haim Bresheeth -- Eskiya = The bandit / Nezih Erdogan -- Beyrouth al Gharbiyya = West Beirut / Mona Deeley -- Kikar Hahalomot = Circle of dreams / Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber -- Kippur / Nitzan Ben-Shaul -- Muwatin, mukhbir wa harami = Citizen, detective and thief / Viola Shafik -- Ten / Gonul Donmez-Colin -- Uzak = Distant / S. Ruken Ozturk -- Forget Baghdad : Jews and Arabs - the Iraqi connection / Ruth Tsoffar

"Twenty-four essays on individual selected films, many by scholars and writers based in the region. It explores established film cultures such as those of Turkey and Iran, and also nascent cinemas such as those of Israel, Palestine and Syria. . . . Selected films include Cairo Station (Egypt, 1958), Umat (Turkey, 1970), The Runner (Iran, 1989), . . . Once upon a time, Beriut (Lebanon, 1994), Chronicle of a disappearance (Palestine, 1996), Circle of dreams (Israel, 2000), Ten (Iran, 2002) and Uzak (Turkey, 2003)."--P. 4 of cover.

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