In Beyond Casablanca, Kevin Dwyer explores the problems of creativity in                  the Arab and African world, focusing on Moroccan cinema and one of its key figures,                  filmmaker M. A. Tazi. Dwyer develops three themes simultaneously: the filmmaker's                  career and films; filmmaking in postcolonial Morocco; and the relationship between                  Moroccan cinema, Third World and Arab cinema, and the global film industry. This                  compelling discussion of Moroccan cinema is founded upon decades of anthropological                  research in Morocco, most recently on the Moroccan film sector and the global film                  industry, and exhibits a sensitivity to the cultural, political, social, and                  economic context of creative activity. The book centers on a series of interviews                  conducted with Tazi, whose career provides a rich commentary on the world of                  Moroccan cinema and on Moroccan cinema in the world. The interviews are framed,                  variously, by presentations of Moroccan history, society, and culture; the role of                  foreign filmmakers in Morocco; thematic discussions of cinematic issues (such as                  narrative techniques, the use of symbols, film as an expression of identity, and                  problems of censorship); and the global context of Third World filmmaking.

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