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Third World Film Making and the West

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ISBN-10: 0520056906

ISBN-13: 9780520056909

Edition: 1988

Authors: Roy Armes

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This volume is the first fully comprehensive account of film production in the Third World. Although they are usually ignored or marginalized in histories of world cinema," Third World countries now produce well over half of the world's films. Roy Armes sets out initially to place this huge output in a wider context, examining the forces of tradition and colonialism that have shaped the Third World--defined as those countries that have emerged from Western control but have not fully developed their economic potential or rejected the capitalist system in favor of some socialist alternative. He then considers the paradoxes of social structure and cultural life in the post-independence world,…    
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Book details

List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/29/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 381
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University. His many books include Hitler's Army, Mirrors of Destruction, and Germany's War and the Holocaust. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Roy Armes is Professor Emeritus of Film at Middlesex University in London. His recent books include Third World Film Making and the West, Arab and African Film Making, Dictionary of North African Film Makers, and Omar Gatlato.