Title: The education of the filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas /
Authors: Hjort, Mette; Hjort, Mette,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Motion pictures Production and direction Study and teaching Middle East.; Motion pictures Production and direction Study and teaching Africa.; Motion pictures Production and direction Study and teaching Americas.; Ausbildung.; Filmschaffender.; Filmregisseur; Filmstudium; Filmwissenschaft.; Motion pictures Production and direction Study and teaching; Motion pictures Production and direction Study and teaching America.; PERFORMING ARTS Reference.; Amerika; Afrika; Mittlerer Osten; Africa; America; Middle East
Abstract: To ask about the nature of practice-based film education as it has emerged around the globe and exists today, is to begin to understand how filmmakers become filmmakers of a particular kind, with specific commitments and values. Ranging well beyond well-established film schools and onto the terrain of studios, clubs, film festivals, NGOs, peripatetic workshops, and alternative film schools, The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas asks probing questions about the goals of different kinds of film training and about the nature of their contributions, not only to the world of film, but to society. Looking at filmmaking in countries such as Nigeria, Qatar, the United States, the West Indies, and others, the contributors examine aspects such as audience response, film education for children, and the impact on crime. --Amazon.com.
Contents: 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.