The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas [electronic resource] /
Hjort, M.editor.
Using case studies from Nigeria, Qatar, the United States, the West Indies, and others, the contributors to this volume examine aspects such as audience response, film education for children, and the impact on crime in the various studios, clubs, film festivals, NGOs, peripatetic workshops, and alternative film schools where filmmaking is taught.
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Mette Hjort: More than film school: why the full spectrum of practice-based film education warrants attention -- Africa -- Anton Basson, Keyan Tomaselli, Gerda Dullaart: Audience response in film education -- Osakue Stevenson Omoera: Bridging the gap: answering the questions of crime, youth unemployment, and poverty through film training in Benin, Nigeria -- Rod Stoneman: Global interchange: the same, but different -- The Middle East -- Hamid Naficy: Branch-campus Initiatives to train media-makers and journalists: Northwestern University's branch campus in Doha, Qatar -- Alia Arasoughly: film education in Palestine post-Oslo: the experience of Shashat -- Mette Hjort: art and networks: the National Film School of Denmark's 'Middle East Project' -- The Americas -- Toby Miller: Goodbye to film school: please close the door on your way out -- Scott MacKenzie: 'An arrow not a target': film process and processing at the Independent Imaging Retreat -- Nicholas Balaisis: The school for every world: internationalism and residual socialism at EICTV -- Christopher Meir: Building film culture in the Anglophone Caribbean film education at the University of the West Indies -- Armida de la Garza: Practice-based film education for children: teaching and  learning for creativity, citizenship, and participation -- George Y' dice: Audiovisual educational practice in Latin America's peripheries.
Using case studies from Nigeria, Qatar, the United States, the West Indies, and others, the contributors to this volume examine aspects such as audience response, film education for children, and the impact on crime in the various studios, clubs, film festivals, NGOs, peripatetic workshops, and alternative film schools where filmmaking is taught.
Higher education.
Motion pictures and television.
Motion pictures—Production and direction.
Arts.
Teaching.
Higher Education.
Screen Studies.
Directing.
Arts.
Teaching and Teacher Education.