Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Illustrations vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ix
5. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS xi
6. INTRODUCTION 1
7. PART I TRANSNATIONAL DIMENSIONS OF MOROCCAN CINEMA – INDUSTRY AND AUDIENCES
8. Introduction 19
9. 1. METAMORPHOSES OF EARLY MOROCCAN CINEMA AND THE COMMUTATION OF INEQUALITIES 21
10. 2. MOCRO MOVIES IN THE NETHERLANDS: EMBEDDING THE DIASPORA IN A SMALL NATION 37
11. 3. ‘WE CAN’T WAIT FOR THE AUDIENCE TO COME TO US!’: AN INDUSTRY ROUND TABLE WITH LAMIA CHRAÏBI, HAKIM BELABBÈS AND NOUR-EDDINE LAKHMARI 52
12. 4. LAUGHTER IN THE BALCONY, TEARS IN THE STALLS: IN DEFENCE OF THE MOROCCAN SPECTATOR 65
13. PART II WOMEN AT THE VANGUARD OF TRANSNATIONAL MOROCCAN CINEMA
14. Introduction 77
15. 5. SILENCE AND STATELESSNESS IN NARJISS NEJJAR’S STATELESS (2018) 79
16. 6. NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL CIRCULATION OF FILMS BY MOROCCAN WOMEN FILMMAKERS: DIFFERENT STRATEGIES FOR ACHIEVING VISIBILITY 96
17. 7. ADVENTURES OF A TRANSNATIONAL AFRICAN DISTRIBUTOR: AN INTERVIEW WITH IZZA GÉNINI 113
18. 8. WOMEN’S CINEMA IN MOROCCO: A ROUND TABLE WITH FARIDA BENLYAZID, LAMIA CHRAÏBI AND SOFIA EL KHYARI 121
19. PART III TRANSNATIONAL AUTEURS AHEAD OF THEIR TIME
20. Introduction 137
21. 9. A TRANSNATIONAL STORY OF ‘RESTOR(Y)ING’ A DOOR TO THE SKY (FARIDA BENLYAZID, 1988) 139
22. 10. ‘IF WESTERN VIEWERS DO NOT OPEN UP TO OUR FILMS, THEY ARE CLOSING THEMSELVES OFF’: AN INTERVIEW WITH AHMED EL MAANOUNI 151
23. 11. MOUMEN SMIHI’S TRANSNATIONAL MOROCCAN EXPERIMENTS: ESSAYING AN ITINERANT ARAB CINEMA IN CAIRO 163
24. PART IV FILM EDUCATION AND FILM CRITICISM IN MOROCCO
25. Introduction 189
26. 12. ‘A DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER SEES WHAT OTHERS DON’T’: AN INTERVIEW WITH HAMID AIDOUNI 191
27. 13. FILM CRITICISM IN MOROCCO: THE HISTORY OF A PERMANENT STRUGGLE 206
28. 14. AHMED BOUGHABA’S VIEW AND REVIEW 221
29. EPILOGUE: MOROCCAN CINEMA AFTER THE PANDEMIC – AN INTERVIEW WITH LAMIA CHRAÏBI 237
30. BIBLIOGRAPHY 250
31. INDEX 262