Moroccan Documentary Cinema and the Dialectics of Ideology

Description

This book chronicles the history of Moroccan cinema by comparing and contrasting how fiction and documentary films function as unequal genres in terms of subsidies and distribution. Highlighting this discrepancy is the foremost aim of this work, as it brings to the fore the creations of skilled documentarians who deserve better recognition from the media, the CCM, audiences, and academia at large. This is why chapters 4 and 5 offer a thematic scrutiny of two combative documentaries that foster Third Cinema idiosyncrasies.

The book further zeros in on the culture of film consumption in Morocco among the learned audience. The participating audiences in this work proved that they are driven by emotions when they choose to watch a movie. That said, celebrities and entertainment are the prime catalysts that drive their viewership. These revelations illustrate the reason why documentaries are given a lower profile by numerous cinema consumers, knowing that idols and joviality are almost entirely absent in documentaries. Thus, it is plain that the decline of Third Cinema documentaries in Morocco is related to low broadcasting on TV, lack of advertising, exclusion from movie theaters, etc