Middle East Studies 202: Middle Eastern Cinema

Viola Shafik | American University in Cairo Press, 2007. Combining detailed narrative history--economic, ideological, and aesthetic--with film analysis, Arab Cinema provides a comprehensive overview of cinema in the Arab world, tracing the industry's development from colonial times to the present. It analyzes the ambiguous relationship with commercial western cinema, and the effect of Egyptian market dominance in the region. Also available in print.

Roy Armes | Indiana University Press, 2015. New Voices in Arab Cinema focuses on contemporary filmmaking since the 1980s. Armes explores themes such as modes of production, national cinemas, the role of the state and private industry on film, international developments in film, key filmmakers, and the validity of current notions like globalization, migration and immigration, and exile.

Roy Armes | Indiana University Press, 2018. Roots of the New Arab Film considers 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.

Edited by Josef Gugler | Indiana University Press, 2015. Ten Arab Filmmakers provides an up-to-date overview of leading Arab directors and in-depth analyses of their most important films. The featured directors are Daoud Abd El-Sayed, Merzak Allouache, Nabil Ayouch, Youssef Chahine, Mohamed Chouikh, Michel Khleifi, Nabil Maleh, Yousry Nasrallah, Jocelyne Saab, and Elia Suleiman.