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The Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film is a unique, one volume work which illuminates a fascinating variety of cinema which is little known outside its own area. The Encyclopedia is divided into nine chapters, each written by a leading scholar in the field. Each chapter covers the history and major issues of film within that area, as well as providing bibliographies of the leading films, directors and actors. The areas covered are: Central Asia, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, The Magreb, Palestine, Turkey. This Encyclopedia will be an invaluable reference tool for students and scholars of Film and Media Studies. It contains more than 60 black and white photographs of featured films, includes references and suggestions for further reading at the end of each chapter, and the volume concludes with comprehensive name, film and general indexes. Central Asia -Gonul Donmez-Colin, France; Egypt -Viola Shafik, American University in Cairo, Egypt; Iran -Hamid Naficy, Rice University, USA; Israel -Judd Ne'mann, Tel Aviv

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A unique reference source [that] focuses on a neglected body of non-western film in a serious, scholarly fashion. The Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film does film students a real service. It pulls together information on a diverse but geographically related body of filmmaking and makes it accessible in one well-organized volume. Academic libraries serious about supporting film study programs will want it in their collections. <br>- Against the Grain, June 2002 <br> The text is enhanced by stills, easy-to-read typeface, sturdy binding, and helpful indexing.... This work brings together material unavailable elsewhere in one place, much of it hitherto unavailable in English....[It] has no English-language rivals, and hence will be essential for any library wanting up-to-date, thoughtful coverage of cinema in the Middle and North Africa. General and academic readers, lower-division undergraduate through faculty.. <br>- Choice, March 2002 <br> As it pretty much goes without saying, the Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film...is nothing if not timely. It's also impressively comprehensive...and well researched, covering not only the well-trodden terrain of Iran and Egypt but, reading like the New York Times these days, also central Asia, Israel, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, the Maghreb, Palestine, and Turkey. <br>- Film Comment, January/February 2002 <br> This is a useful addition to the growing library on non-Western cinema...highly recommended for all libraries supporting film studies. <br>- Library Journal, November 2001 <br>

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