This volume engages new films and modes of scholarly research in Arab cinema, and older, often neglected films and critical topics, while theorizing their structural relationship to contemporary developments in the Arab world.  From Morocco and the Western Sahara to Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and the Gulf States, the volume considers the relationship of Arab cinema to transnational film production, distribution, and exhibition, in turn recontextualizing the works of acknowledged directorial figures such as Maroun Baghdadi, Omar Amiralay, and Randa Chahal Sabbagh, and country-specific phenomena such as the amateur film scene in Tunisia. New documentary practices, increasingly prominent in the region, are referenced and critiqued, while Egyptian cinema is covered both as an industrial product and as one of several instances of contestational cinema. The volume thus showcases the breadth and depth of Arab film culture and its multilayered connections to local conditions, regional affiliations, and the tendencies and aesthetics of global cinema. weiterlesen