52 Result(s)
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Gender Studies
Media Studies
Screen Studies
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Kenya
Before the independence of Kenya from the United Kingdom in 1963, foreign production companies used Kenya as a backdrop for films shot in the country. After becoming a republic, film production started to rise...
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Namibia
Namibia gained independence from South Africa in 1990. Before this period, little cinematic data is available. John Marshall, an American working and living in Namibia, released documentaries about the country...
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Palestine
Palestine has a relatively young cinema with a multilingual output — films are produced using Arabic, French, English, and Hebrew. In the early days of the industry, work was focused primarily in the documenta...
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Armenia
After Armenia was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1922, the centralized government formed the Armenian Film Foundation in 1923. With the establishment of Armenfilm (Hayfilm) studios in the same year, Arm...
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Finland
The history of film in Finland began at the same time as modern motion picture technology was invented. The Lumière brothers screened the first moving images in Helsinki in 1896. However, it was a decade befor...
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Introduction
In this study of female screenwriters, from the first film scenarios produced in 1896 to the present day, we highlight the work of more than 300 writers from over 50 nations. Each entry gives an overview of th...
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Malta
At the end of the nineteenth century, while Edison, Lumière and Méliès were experimenting with early film (Dixon and Foster 2008), Malta was still a British colony, only gaining independence in 1964 (Chircop 2...
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Egypt
Ali Badrakhan, a prominent Egyptian ‘new wave’ director active from the 1970s until the present day, is reported to have said that ‘Egyptian cinema was shouldered by women, namely Aziza Amir, Fatma Rushdy and ...
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Norway
The first Norwegian female scriptwriters emerged in the 1970s, producing work that confronted patriarchal society, gave voice to women’s rights and opposed Classical Hollywood Cinema. Previously very few women...
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Romania
The Romanian fiction film industry has rarely produced scripts written by women. The Romanian Fiction Film Dictionary (2004) credits only 34 women screenwriters in productions between 1911 and 2004, out of 430 sc...
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Switzerland
In 1895, the year following its debut in London and Paris, the Edison Kinetoscope delivered the first moving photographic images to Swiss viewers, with 1896 constituting the annus mirabilis for the new medium. In...
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South Africa
The involvement of women in the film industry in South Africa dates back to the apartheid era when several white women worked within what was then, as now, a white, male-dominated industry. In some instances, ...
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Tunisia
Since its birth, the Tunisian cinema has been at the forefront of the feminist movement, trying to rehabilitate the dignity and equality of women in the country.
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Cuba
From film’s arrival on the island of Cuba in 1897 until the 1959 Revolution, Cuba made 80 feature-length films. In the first 62 years of male-dominated filmmaking on the island, Cuba’s film industry was not a ...
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Israel
Train Station in Jerusalem (1896) was one of the earliest films ever made, shot in Ottoman Palestine by the French Lumière brothers, long before the advent of Israeli statehood. The first full-length feature film...
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Argentina
The beginnings of Argentine cinema date back to 1897, when representatives of the Lumière brothers screened their early moving pictures to audiences in the capital, Buenos Aires. Before long a local industry b...
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Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso (formerly the Republic of Upper Volta and also referred to as Burkinabe or simply as Burkina) is in West Africa. It is one of the most prolific feature-film-producing countries in Africa and, in 1...
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Ghana
The film industry in Ghana cites 1948 as the year of its birth, when Gold Coast Film Unit and African Pictures Limited were formed. Government support has been sporadic. One of Ghana’s best-known filmmakers is...
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Poland
In 1899, when filmmaking began in Poland, the nation was considered part of the Russian Empire. Short narrative films, as well as early documentaries, were referred to as ‘Living Picture Theatre’. Movie houses...
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Morocco
Moroccan film production was slow to develop into a credible film industry, but today it is the most productive and successful industry in the Maghreb, and arguably in the Arab world. As Jamal Bahmad, expert o...
