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[ecrea] new book Film Festival Yearbook 6: Film Festivals and the Middle East

Wed Apr 16 07:39:06 GMT 2014




*NEW BOOK OUT SOON - PRESALES OFFER*

*Film Festival Yearbook 6: Film Festivals and the Middle East*

Dina Iordanova and Stefanie Van de Peer (eds)

This new Film Festival Yearbook focuses on a scandalously overlooked area in film and festival studies: the Middle East and North Africa. With its glamorous international and modest national film festivals, the Middle East and North Africa deserve more sustained analysis and attention from film scholars. Investigating the film culture and film festivals of this area, this book reveals how a culturally-informed geopolitical scope can ultimately shape a distinct and evolving cinematic take on the world. This collection of essays - with contributions from Laura U. Marks, Alberto Elena, Jean-Michel Frodon, Gönül Donmez-Colin, Chris Berry, Savas Arslan, Alisa Lebow, and many others - investigates the circuit of films, the impact of festivals and the representation of the Middle Eastern peoples, cultures and languages on international screens. The book will be published in May 2014.

Praise for FFY6:

"This book is chock full of original research that will fascinate media scholars interested in the Middle East as well as scholars, programmers, and critics of film festivals in and outside of the region. With 29 different contributions, this book is comprehensive and eclectic. Film Festivals and the Middle East provides an indispensable introduction to a long-overlooked region." - Jeffrey Ruoff (Dartmouth College, author of Coming Soon to a Festival near You)

"Ranging from Turkey to the Maghreb, Film Festivals and the Middle East provides a wealth of information from the early festivals that arose in Iran and Tunisia to those established in three Gulf emirates since 2004. In their wide-ranging introduction the editors promote interaction among local and foreign producers, directors, and critics. They showcase cultural achievements and aspirations to the world at large, while locally fostering a cinema culture along with an appreciation of indigenous productions." - Josef Gugler (University of Connecticut, author of Film in the Middle East and North Africa)

To buy this book at a special reduced price, please go to the St Andrews Film Studies Publishing House’s webshop and use the code FFY6PSO, before 30 April 2014.

Online Catalogue and Shop: http://stafs.org/catalogue/

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