Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Characteristics of the New Cinema

2. The Filmmakers
The New Importance of Women Filmmakers
Questions of Identity
Training
Funding
A Cosmopolitan Generation

3. Documentary
Palestine
Lebanon
Egypt and The Maghreb
Iraq
Syria

4. Feature Filmmaking
Algeria
Morocco
Tunisia
Egypt
Lebanon
Palestine
Iraq
Syria
The Gulf

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015

About the Author

Roy Armes is Professor Emeritus of Film at Middlesex University. He has published widely on world cinema and is author of Dictionary of African Filmmakers (IUP, 2008).

Reviews

"This overview of Arab filmmakers comes from an author with a proven record of valuable and accessible publications." - Kevin Dwyer, American University in Cairo "Roy Armes' scholarly productivity and original contributions to film studies continue without pause. Serves as a corrective and counter-reading of reveived views and stereotypic assumptions about the Arab world." - Michael T. Martin, Indiana University, Bloomington