Some further suggestions for reading on Middle Eastern Cinema:

*Yosefa Loshitzky, Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen (Univ. of
Texas Press, 2001)
* Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media, Vol.  43, No.  2 (Fall
2002) a special issue on Middle-Eastern Media Arts.  Includes many
articles on Middle Eastern cinema.
*The upcoming issue of the journal "Third Text" is devoted to
Palestine/Israel (in media, film and the arts).  The issue will be out
this week or shorthly afterwards.  It includes some articles on
Palestinian and Israeli cinema.  Guest editors: Haim Bresheeth and Haifa
Hamami
* For an article (one of the very few) on Palestinian cinema see Haim
Bresheeth, "Telling the Stories of Heim and Heimat, Home and Exile:
Recent Palestinian Films and the Iconic Parable of Invisible Palestine,"
New Cinemas, Vol.  1, No. 1 (November 2001), pp.  24-39. 

With best wishes,

Yosefa Loshitzky

Organiser of the Conference "Fortress Europe and Its Others: Cultural
Representations in Film, Media and the Arts," 4-6 April 2005, University
of London, visit the website at
http://www.sas.ac.uk/igrs/fortress/europe.htm



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Date:    Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:50:39 +1000
From:    Adrian Martin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Dreams and Drugs

Dreams: The BELGIAN REVIEW OF CINEMA (in French) had a tremendous 
special issue on the film-dream relation a few years back.

Drugs: Rotterdam Film Fest had a great special focus on 'drug films' 
not many years ago. The program is doubtless still on their website, 
and maybe also the terrific weblog maintained by its curator, which is 
fascinating, funny and informative.

Both these sources mention numerous dream and drug films that are NOT 
merely English-language and mainstream. More effort towards promoting 
truly independent and marginal world cinema, please, film-philosophy 
comrades!

Adrian

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Date:    Mon, 2 Oct 2006 07:59:15 -0500
From:    "Bergen-Aurand, Brian K" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Middle East on Film?

Dear Kamran and others,

Thanks so much for sharing your resources.  I'll certainly compare our
lists and share anything that adds to the discussion.  I've used a lot
of Shohat and Stam's writings in the past, so I'll investigate
McAlister's text.

I also very much value your caution that we consider the differences
between films about the ME and films from the ME.  That's, in part, why
the subtitle of my course is actually "West Asia and North Africa on
Film" because we look at representations of the areas and cultures from
what I loosely call "outside" and "inside" views.

I'm also in my third update of this course because I am much more an
authority on Turkish cinema than anything else.  Hence, the
Turkish/Kurdish/Cypriot bias of my syllabus.  This is another reason I
find your list so interesting, of course.  I've spent the last year
working on Palestinian, Israeli, and Syrian cinema, but that still
leaves gaps in my knowledge, of course.  This year I am striving for
more transnational productions and a better balance, at least between
Turkey/Iran/Egypt.

I'm also trying to move away from the more auteurist beginnings of my
list: Guney, Chahine, Kiarostami, Makhmalbaf, Gatai, Khleifi, etc.  This
year I'm adding a unit on popular cinema because it seems to be a
favorite of students in my Turkish Film and Culture course and the unit
that most surprises them.

good day,
Brian

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> From:    Kamran Rastegar <[log in to unmask]>
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> Brian and all,
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> I wonder if we might not wish to make a distinction between films 
> /from/ the Middle East and those /about/ the Middle East (and, I'd 
> suggest, North Africa). I think it's potentially very problematic to 
> mix the two, unless the point of the exercise is to examine the 
> politics of representation, etc.
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> I teach a course on cinemas of the Middle East/North Africa -- I'm 
> listing the films I use below. But there are many others I wish I 
> could add -- if anyone has particular areas of interest relating to 
> ME/NA films I'd be more than happy to discuss how these lists could be

> changed or expanded. For example, my list is quite weak on Turkish 
> cinema.
>
> I'd love to hear more about what anyone on this list who has taught 
> this area in the past has taught... same with the readings that have 
> been used.
>
> It's not on my list below, but if you're interested in the politics of

> US representations of the ME in popular culture, I'd highly recommend 
> a wonderful text by Melanie McAlister: Epic Encounters: Culture, 
> Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000.
>
> best,
> Kamran Rastegar
>

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Brian K. Bergen-Aurand, PhD
Department of English (M/C 162)
2026 University Hall
601 S. Morgan St.
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607-7120
USA

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