Acknowledgments
Introduction: Third World, Many Worlds
1. The Most Successful Moroccan Film Ever
Interlude: Film's Power and Function
2. Building the National Cinema, Building a Career
Interlude: A First Feature-The Big Trip (1981)
3. Huston, Wise, Coppola, Camus and Pasolini, Scorsese and Some
Others
4. Badis (1989)
Interlude: How to Tell a Story-Narrative and Symbols
5. The Other Side of the Wind, Almost
Interlude: Lalla Hobby-The Film
6. Reflections and Projections
Conclusion: Future Flights of the Bumblebee
Notes
Bibliography
Chronology
Index
A fascinating journey through the world of Moroccan cinema.
Kevin Dwyer is Professor of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo. He is author of Moroccan Dialogues: Anthropology in Question and Arab Voices: The Human Rights Debate in the Middle East. He lives in Cairo.
A specialist on the Middle East and North Africa, particularly
Morocco, Dwyer (social anthropology, American Univ., Cairo) set
himself the task of investigating the complexities of creative
activity in a Third World context by focusing on the Moroccan
national cinema and, more specifically, on the life and career of
the country's best known film director, Muhammad Abderrahman Tazi.
Dwyer devotes a great deal of space and analysis to Tazi's most
profitable film, À (A) la recherche du mari de ma femme (Looking
for My Wife's Husband), to date the most commercially successful
movie ever shown in Morocco. The analysis of this 1994 film makes
it sound like a delightful Islamic romantic comedy; the plot could
only occur in a Muslim context, hinging on polygamy and the
three-repudiation divorce. Dwyer's treatment of Tazi's career is
both detailed and contextualized. His interviews with the filmmaker
sometimes seem trivial, perhaps even nit-picking, but his
estimations of the general position of Third World filmmaking in
world cinema, especially in competition with Hollywood, are
extremely well documented. The book has copious notes and a useful
bibliography. Summing Up: Recommended. Collections supporting study
of world cinema at the upper-division undergraduate level and
above.July 2005
*Berea College*
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