Posted: June 20th, 2015

Topic: The Representation of Women and the Use of Folklore Dance in Kuwaiti Films

Topic: The Representation of Women and the Use of Folklore Dance in Kuwaiti Films

B-check the reading list and their bibliography, you will have to summarise them then write a literature review (critical) what are their findings? why they are good to my subject of study? what do they lack?

you will have to put in mind that in the literature you must include these points:

1- reading the texts about the bibliography I gave you to read about, decided, and after reading making notes about what you think is useful from those texts;
2- compiling a comprehensive filmography of Kuwait cinema .

Reading List:

Dance reading list in relation to films:
Reading List

1-Brannigan, E. (2011) DanceFilm: Choreography and the Moving Image. Oxford Univ. Press.

2-Brennan, M. A. (1999) ‘Every Little Movement Has a Meaning All of it’s Own: Movement Analysis in Dance Research’ in Fraleigh, S. H and Hanstein, P. (eds.) Researching Dance: Evolving Modes of Enquiry. London: Dance Books, 283 – 308

3-Desmond, J. (1997) “Embodying Difference: Issues in Dance and Cultural Studies,” in Meaning in Motion, Desmond, J. (ed.) Duke University Press. 29-54.

4-Dodds, S. (2004) Dance on Screen. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Jordan, S. and Thomas, H. (2010) Dance and Gender: Formalism and Semiotics Reconsidered. In Carter, A. and O’Shea, J. The Routledge Dance Studies Reader (Second Edition). Oxon, Routledge, pp. 148 – 157.

5-McPherson, K (2006) Making Video Dance A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen. London: Routledge.

6-Mitoma, J. (2002) Envisioning Dance on Film and Video: Dance for the Camera. London: Routledge.

7-Rosenberg, D. (2012) Screendance: Inscribing the Ephemeral Image. New York: Oxford University Press.

8-Morcom, Anna. Courtesans, Bar Girls & Dancing Boys: The Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance. Hachette UK, 2014.

Books about Films (Arab cinema +Kuwait)

Books (Cinema)

1- Pop Culture Arab World!: Media, Arts, and Lifestyle (Popular Culture in the Contemporary World) Hardcover – December 15, 2004
by Andrew Leonard Hammond

2-Culture and Customs of the Arab Gulf States (Cultures and Customs of the World) Hardcover – March 20, 2009

by Rebecca L. Torstrick (Author), Elizabeth Faier (Author)

3-The Cinema Book Paperback – 3 Jan 2008

by Pam Cook (Editor)

4-Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity by Shafik, Viola (2007) Paperback

5-Arab Cinema and Culture: Round Table Conferences Under the Auspices and with the Participation of the UNESCO,

Beirut, October 1964

6-Dictionnaire des nouveaux cinémas arabes Broché – 21 novembre 2001

7-The Role of Music In Arab Modernism And Arab Films by Abdel Halim Nouaira U.A.R

8-Women’s Cinema: The Contested Screen Alison Butler

9-Wallflower Press, 2002 – Performing Arts – 134 pages