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

*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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