Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema
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- 2020
Summary
To a substantial degree cinema has served to define the perceived character of the peoples and nations of the Middle East. This book covers the production and exhibition of the cinema of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabi, Yemen, Kuwait, and Bahrain, as well as the non-Arab states of Turkey and Iran, and the Jewish state of Israel.
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on individual films, filmmakers, actors, significant historical figures, events, and concepts, and the countries themselves. It also covers the range of cinematic modes from documentary to fiction, representational to animation, generic to experimental, mainstream to avant-garde, and entertainment to propaganda. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Middle Eastern cinema.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2020
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-5381-3904-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-5381-3905-9
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 655
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- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Contents No access
- Editor’s Foreword No access
- Preface No access
- Reader’s Note No access
- Acronyms and Abbreviations No access
- Chronology No access
- Introduction No access Pages 1 - 20
- THE DICTIONARY No access Pages 21 - 534
- Filmography No access Pages 535 - 610
- Bibliography No access Pages 611 - 648
- About the Authors No access Pages 649 - 650
- About the Contributors No access Pages 651 - 655





