TY - JOUR
T1 - Marock in Morocco
T2 - Reading moroccan films in the age of circulation
AU - Edwards, Brian T.
N1 - Funding Information:
The research for this paper was funded in part by an AIMS short-term research grant in June–July 2006, for which the author expresses appreciation. Additional support for research travel to Morocco was provided by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. The author thanks Jamal Bahmad, Abdelmjid Kettioui, Sadik Rddad and students in the MA programme in Cultural Studies at Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Dhar Mahrez, Fez, for sharing their thoughts on Marock. Dilip Gaonkar, Franc¸oise Lionnet and participants at a UCLA Global Fellows seminar read drafts of this essay and offered perceptive comments that helped sharpen its argument; they have his gratitude.
PY - 2007/9
Y1 - 2007/9
N2 - This article discusses a number of recent Moroccan films - created by artists based both in Morocco and the diaspora - that engage questions of globalisation and culture. The author argues that 'circulation' is a common thematic concern in several such films of the past decade and offers a means by which to understand the relationship of globalisation to recent Maghribi cultural production. The central text analysed is the 2005 film Marock (directed by Laila Marrakchi), and the 2006 controversies surrounding it, which most clearly exhibit the shift in Moroccan representations in the age of global capital and cultural flows. Attention to circulation allows us to put in dialogue the cultural production of the Maghribi diaspora and the Maghrib without collapsing their differences; to identify a new paradigm of cultural production that follows the 'postcolonial' period; and to link elements within these films to the material and geopolitical concerns they engage.
AB - This article discusses a number of recent Moroccan films - created by artists based both in Morocco and the diaspora - that engage questions of globalisation and culture. The author argues that 'circulation' is a common thematic concern in several such films of the past decade and offers a means by which to understand the relationship of globalisation to recent Maghribi cultural production. The central text analysed is the 2005 film Marock (directed by Laila Marrakchi), and the 2006 controversies surrounding it, which most clearly exhibit the shift in Moroccan representations in the age of global capital and cultural flows. Attention to circulation allows us to put in dialogue the cultural production of the Maghribi diaspora and the Maghrib without collapsing their differences; to identify a new paradigm of cultural production that follows the 'postcolonial' period; and to link elements within these films to the material and geopolitical concerns they engage.
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U2 - 10.1080/13629380701461394
DO - 10.1080/13629380701461394
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34547587966
SN - 1362-9387
VL - 12
SP - 287
EP - 307
JO - Journal of North African Studies
JF - Journal of North African Studies
IS - 3
ER -