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UNINA9910827621003321 |
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Autore |
Dwyer Kevin |
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Titolo |
Beyond Casablanca [[electronic resource] ] : M. A. Tazi and the Adventure of Moroccan Cinema |
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Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-07159-9 |
0-253-11111-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (449 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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791.4302/33/092 |
791.430964 |
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Soggetti |
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Motion picture producers and directors - Morocco - Interviews |
Motion picture producers and directors - Morocco |
Motion pictures - Morocco |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; TOC; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Most Successful Moroccan Film Ever; INTERLUDE: Film's Power and Function; 2. Building the National Cinema, Building a Career; INTERLUDE: A First Feature - The Big Trip (1981); 3. Huston, Wise, Coppola, Camus...; 4. Badis (1989); INTERLUDE: Telling a Story - Narrative and Symbols; 5. The Other Side of the Wind, Almost; INTERLUDE: Lalla Hobby - The Film; 6. Reflections and Projections; CONCLUSION: Future Flights of the Bumblebee; Chronology; Detailed Table of Contents; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In Beyond Casablanca, Kevin Dwyer explores the problems of creativity in the Arab and African world, focusing on Moroccan cinema and one of its key figures, filmmaker M. A. Tazi. Dwyer develops three themes simultaneously: the film maker's career and films; film making in postcolonial Morocco; and the relationship between Moroccan cinema, Third World and Arab cinema, and the global film industry. This compelling discussion of Moroccan cinema is founded upon decades of anthropological research in Morocco, |
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