Beyond Casablanca: M.A. Tazi and the Adventure of Moroccan Cinema

by Kevin Dwyer and Kevin Dwyer

Book Overview

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 filmmaker's career and films; filmmaking 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253217199
• ISBN13: 9780253217196
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 433 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher