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  • New Voices in Arab Cinema

    by Roy Armes ...
    New Voices in Arab Cinema focuses on contemporary filmmaking since the 1980s, but also considers the longer history of Arab cinema. Taking into consideration film from the Middle East and North Africa and giving a special nod to films produced since the Arab Spring and the Syrian crisis, Roy Armes explores themes such as modes of production, national cinemas, the role of the state and private ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization

    Volume 1: Colonial Antecedents, Constituents, Theory, and Articulations

    by Michael T. Martin, Gaston Jean-Marie Kaboré, Roy Armes, James E. Genova, Femi Okiremuete Shaka, James Burns, Tom Rice0, Odile Goerg1, Med Hondo2, Férid Boughedir3, Haile Gerima4, Sada Niang5, Monique Mbeka Phoba6, Olivier Barlet7, Clyde R. Taylor8, Alexie Tcheuyap9, Esiaba Irobi0, Stephen A. Zacks1, Teshome H. Gabriel2, David Murphy3, Jude Akudinobi4, Maureen N. Eke5, Arnold Shepperson6, Keyan G. Tomaselli7, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra8, Boukary Sawadogo9, Claude Forest0, Samba Gadjigo1, Beti Ellerson2 ...
    Series series Studies in the Cinema of the Black Diaspora
    Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film.Volume One of this landmark series on African cinema draws together foundational scholarship on its history and evolution. Beginning with the ideological project of colonial film to legitimize the economic ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • On Video

    by Roy Armes ...
    Series series Studies in Culture and Communication
    Though video systems are now growing ever more accessible, and practical video work is undertaken at every level of education, this is the first book-length historical and theoretical study of the medium. On Video explores video on two levels: first, it examines the relationship between technology and society; and second, it probes the connection between production methods and the communication of ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Roots of the New Arab Film

    by Roy Armes ...
    Roots of the New Arab Film deals with the generation of filmmakers from across North Africa and the Middle East who created an international awareness of Arab film from the mid-1980s onwards. These seminal filmmakers experienced the moment of national independence first-hand in their youth and retained a deep attachment to their homeland. Although these aspiring filmmakers had to seek their ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse

    by Aboubakar S. Sanogo, Neil Parsons, Martin Mhando, Roy Armes, Keyan G. Tomaselli, Sheila Petty, Arnold Shepperson, Martin P. Botha, Esiaba Irobi, Suzanne H. MacRae, Jude G. Akudinobi ...
    Critical Approaches to African Cinema Discourse utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to lay bare the diversity and essence of African cinema discourse. It is an anthology of historical reflections, critical essays, and interviews by film critics, historians, theorists, and filmmakers that signifies a dialogue and engagement apropos the ideology and cultural politics of film production in Africa ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

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  • "The Voice of Egypt"

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    by Virginia Danielson ...
    Series Book 1997 - Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology
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  • Andrei Tarkovsky

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  • Jihad and Death

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  • In the Wake of the Poetic

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