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The history of Israeli cinema is so closely related to the history of the state of Israel itself since some of the wars and international conflicts that the country was inevitably drawn into by the war torn Middle East, inspired Israeli film directors and gave rise to the different periods of the nation's film industry.
The Greidinger family, the majority owners of Cinema City International N.V., started their cinema business in Haifa, Israel, Moshe Greidinger (grandfather of the company's current CEO also named Moshe Greidinger) started building his first cinema in 1929, which was opened in 1931 as Ein Dor. [2] In 1935, he opened his second cinema in Haifa, Armon Cinema (palace in Hebrew), a large art-deco ...
Throughout its history it has been active as an Palestinian cultural institution (in Mandatory Palestine), again as a cinema after the establishment of Israel, and as a theatre after 1963. In 2010 it was purchased and renovated by the Church of Scientology, and in 2012 was opened as the Ideal Center of Scientology for the Middle East. [2]
The archive, based in a climate-controlled film centre adjacent to Jerusalem’s Old City walls, holds 96% of all features ever produced in Israel. To date, it has largely served cultural ...
Gilad Padva. Discursive Identities in the (R) Evolution of the New Israeli Queer Cinema. In Talmon, Miri and Peleg, Yaron (Eds.), Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion (pp. 313–325). Austin, TX: Texas University Press, 2011. Ella Shohat, Israeli cinema: East West and the politics of representation, Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 1989.
In the 1940s and 1950s, the 'Golden Age' of Middle Eastern cinema emerged, primarily from Egypt, which is dubbed the "Hollywood of the East." [2] Studios like Studio Misr and Al-Ahram played an instrumental role in the proliferation of Middle Eastern cinema, producing influential films like "The White Rose" (1933) and "The Song of Hope" (1937). [3]
The 100,000sq ft venue became the largest complex in the Middle East after its re-launch on September 28, 2015. In May 2018, Vox Cinemas opened the first four-screen multiplex in Saudi Arabia, [97] at the company's new entertainment complex in Riyadh Park, two weeks after the first public cinema screening in Saudi Arabia for 35 years.
Josef Gugler (ed.) Film in the Middle East and North Africa: Creative Dissidence, University of Texas Press and American University in Cairo Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-292-72327-6, ISBN 978-9-774-16424-8; Josef Gugler (ed.) Ten Arab Filmmakers: Political Dissent and Social Critique, Indiana University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0-253-01652-2