The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas (eBook)

Alia Arasoughly, Shashat, Palestine Nicholas Balaisis, Trent University, Canada Anton Basson, South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, South Africa Gerda Dullaart, South African School of Motion Picture Medium and Live Performance, South Africa Armida de la Garza, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China Scott MacKenzie, York University, Canada Christopher Meir, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago Toby Millerk, City University of London, UK Hamid Naficy, Northwestern University, USA Osakue Stevenson Omoera, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria Rod Stoneman, National University of Ireland, Galway Keyan Tomaselli, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban George Yúdice, University of Miami, USA

More than Film School: Why the Full Spectrum of Practice-based Film Education Warrants Attention; Mette Hjort PART I: AFRICA 1. Audience Response in Film Education; Anton Basson, Keyan Tomaselli, Gerda Dullaart 2. Bridging the Gap: Answering the Questions of Crime, Youth Unemployment, and Poverty through Film Training in Benin, Nigeria; Osakue Stevenson Omoera 3. Global Interchange: the Same, but Different; Rod Stoneman PART II: THE MIDDLE EAST 4. Branch-Campus Initiatives to Train Media-Makers and Journalists: Northwestern University's Branch Campus in Doha, Qatar; Hamid Naficy 5. Film Education in Palestine Post-Oslo: The Experience of Shashat; Alia Arasoughly 6. Art and Networks: The National Film School of Denmark's 'Middle East Project'; Mette Hjort PART III: THE AMERICAS 7. Goodbye to Film School: Please Close the Door on Your Way Out; Toby Miller 8. 'An Arrow Not a Target': Film Process and Processing at the Independent Imaging Retreat; Scott MacKenzie 9. The School for Every World: Internationalism and Residual Socialism at EICTV; Nicholas Balaisis 10. Building Film Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean: Film Education at the University of the West Indies; Christopher Meir 11. Practice-based Film Education for Children: Teaching and Learning for Creativity, Citizenship, and Participation; Armida de la Garza 12. Audiovisual Educational Practice in Latin America's Peripheries; George Yúdice