Transnational Moroccan Cinema

Will Higbee is a Professor of Film Studies at the University of Exeter. He has published widely on cinemas of the Maghreb and their diasporas, as well as questions of national and transnational cinema. He is the author of Post-Beur Cinema (2013) and co-editor of De-Westernizing Film Studies (2012). Florence Martin is the Van Meter Professor of French Transnational Studies at Goucher College (US). She has published internationally on Maghrebi cinema and women’s cinema. Her international publications on Maghrebi and women’s cinema include Screens and Veils: Maghrebi Women’s Cinema (2011) and her co-edition of Les Cinémas du Maghreb et leurs publics (2013).

Exploring the 'Moroccan film ecosystem' through a transnational lens, this timely collection opens critical dialogues on culture, identity, gender, and diaspora – beyond postcoloniality. Leading scholars and professionals situate Moroccan cinema within national, regional and global circuits. The result is a ground-breaking and comprehensive contribution to the study of transnational cinema cultures.

• AcknowledgementsList of imagesContributor Bios Introduction - Will Higbee and Florence MartinPart I. Transnational Dimensions of Moroccan Cinema – Industry and Audiences1. Metamorphoses of Early Moroccan Cinema and the Commutation of Inequalities - Viola Shafik2. Mocro Movies in the Netherlands: Embedding the diaspora in a small nation - Arne Saeys3. ‘We can’t wait for the audience to come to us!’ an industry roundtable with Lamia Chraïbi, Hakim Belabbès, and Nour-Eddine Lakhmari - Will Higbee4. Laughter in the balcony, tears in the stalls: in defence of the Moroccan spectator - Nadir BouhmouchPart II. Women at the Vanguard of Transnational Moroccan Cinema5. Silence and Statelessness in Narjiss Nejjar’s Apatride (2018) - Kaya Davies-Hayon6. National and Transnational Circulation of Films by Moroccan Women Filmmakers: Different Strategies for Achieving Visibility - Patricia Caillé7. Adventures of a transnational African distributor: an interview with Izza Génini - Will Higbee and Florence Martin8. Women’s Cinemas in Morocco: a round table with Farida Benlyazid, Lamia Chraïbi and Sofia Elkhyari - Florence MartinPart III. Transnational Auteurs Ahead of Their Times9. A Transnational Story of Re-Storing: A Door to the Sky (1989) by Farida Benlyazid - Will Higbee, Florence Martin and Stefanie Van de Peer10. “If Western viewers do not open up to our films, they are closing themselves off”: an interview with Ahmed El Maanouni - Will Higbee and Florence Martin11. Moumen Smihi’s Transnational Moroccan Experiments: Essaying an Itinerant Arab Cinema in Cairo - Peter LimbrickPart IV. Film Education and Film Criticism in Morocco12. “A documentary filmmaker sees what others don’t”: an interview with Professor Hamid Aidouni - Will Higbee and Florence Martin13. Film criticism in Morocco, the history of a permanent struggle - Rachid Naim14. Ahmed Boughaba’s View and Review - Ahmed BoughabaEpilogue: Moroccan Cinema After the Pandemic – an interview with Lamia Chraïbi - Will Higbee and Florence MartinBibliographyIndex