1. 'Cinemas of the Maghreb': Reflections on the transnational and polycentric dimensions of regional cinema.
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Caillé, Patricia
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REGIONAL films , *NORTH Africa in motion pictures , *MOTION picture distribution , *TWENTIETH century , *HISTORY ,FRENCH colonies ,FRENCH foreign relations - Abstract
The purpose of this article is to problematize how a specific set of films is constructed, promoted and valorized as 'cinemas of the Maghreb', via a consideration of the people, the institutions and the interactions that are involved in different geographical and institutional contexts. The analysis contrasts three different geographical, cultural and institutional contexts in which 'cinemas of the Maghreb' become meaningful, as well as the set of common features that underlie the category. Focusing on international co-productions, the circulation of films through commercial exhibition, box-office receipts, film events organized and film scholarship, the article explores the extent to which such a denomination is deeply enmeshed with France, but also how it raises very different issues, involves different agents, and refers to different objects and temporalities in France, Anglo-American academia and the Maghreb itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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