Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema, Second Edition (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts)

To a substantial degree cinema has served to define the perceived character of the peoples and nations of the Middle East. This book covers the production and exhibition of the cinema of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabi, Yemen, Kuwait, and Bahrain, as well as the non-Arab states of Turkey and Iran, and the Jewish state of Israel.

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 500 cross-referenced entries on individual films, filmmakers, actors, significant historical figures, events, and concepts, and the countries themselves. It also covers the range of cinematic modes from documentary to fiction, representational to animation, generic to experimental, mainstream to avant-garde, and entertainment to propaganda. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Middle Eastern cinema.

Terri Ginsberg is Assistant Professor of Film, and former Director of the Film Program, at The American University in Cairo. She is author of Visualizing the Palestinian Struggle: Towards a Critical Analytic of Palestine Solidarity Film, editor of two special issues on film and media of the International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies, and co-editor of Cinema of the Arab World: Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice.

Chris Lippard is Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Film and Media Arts at the University of Utah. He is co-editor of Cinema of the Arab World: Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice.



Contributors: Hend Alawadhi, Samirah Alkassim, Farshad Aminian, Savas Arslan, Patricia Caillé, Sandra G. Carter, Anne Ciecko, Gayatri Devi, Iman Hamam, Dale Hudson, Wissam Mouawad, Helga Tawil-Souri, Negar Taymoorzadeh, Mark R. Westmoreland, Alia Yunis