Roy Armes (born March 16, 1937) is a British professor emeritus and film scholar who has written numerous books on the history of filmmaking and select filmmakers.
He wrote a treatise on the film Omar Gatlato and books on Alain Robbe-Grillet and Alain Resnais.
Books
- Armes, Roy (1966). French Cinema Since 1946. Vol. 1. ISBN 9789100031961.
- Armes, Roy (1966). French Cinema Since 1946. Vol. 2.
- Armes, Roy (1968). The Cinema of Alain Resnais.
- Armes, Roy (1976). The ambiguous image: Narrative style in modern European cinema. Bloomington, Ind. : Univ. Pr. ISBN 9784366018008. OCLC 902125049.
- Armes, Roy (1978). A critical history of the British cinema. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-19-520043-0.
- Armes, Roy (1987). Third World Film Making and the West. University of California Press. ISBN 9780520908017.
- Armes, Roy (2001). On video. Studies in communication (Repr ed.). London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-00717-7.
- Armes, Roy (2005). Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253217448.
- Armes, Roy (2006). African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253218988.
- Armes, Roy (2008). Dictionary of African filmmakers. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35116-6.
- Armes, Roy (2010). Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East: A Dictionary. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253004598.
- Armes, Roy (2015). New voices in Arab cinema. Bloomington, Ind: Indiana University press. ISBN 978-0-253-01516-7.
References
- Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, on Encyclopedia.com
- Omar Gatlato. Flicks Books. 1998. ISBN 9780948911187.
- Burdick, Dolores M. (January 13, 1980). "Review of "A Critical History of British Cinema", by Armes, Roy". Performing Arts Review. 10 (1): 93–97. doi:10.1080/00315249.1980.9944034 – via CrossRef.
- "A History of the British Cinema". Kirkus Reviews. 1978-09-01. Retrieved 2023-11-13.
- Hobson, Sarah; Vir, Parminder (April 13, 1988). "Roy Armes, Third World Film-making and the West. Berkeley, Cal.: University of California Press, 1987, 416 pp., 110 illustrations, US17.95 paperback (ISBN 0 520 05690 6)". Africa. 58 (2): 255–256. doi:10.2307/1160680. JSTOR 1160680 – via Cambridge University Press.
- Roberts, Andrew (October 1989). "Roy Armes: Third World film making and the West. xiii. 381 pp. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1987". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 52 (3): 620–622. doi:10.1017/S0041977X00035308. ISSN 1474-0699.
- Morse, Margaret (April 1, 1990). "Review: On Video by Roy Armes". Film Quarterly. 43 (3): 63–64. doi:10.2307/1212651. JSTOR 1212651 – via online.ucpress.edu.
- Porter, Laurence M. (2007). "Review of Postcolonial Images: Studies in North African Film; African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara, Roy Armes". SubStance. 36 (2): 147–161. ISSN 0049-2426. JSTOR 25195130.
- Ahmida, Ali Abdullatif (May 2008). "Roy Armes Postconial Images: Studies in North African Cinema (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2005). Pp. 272. $24.95 paper". International Journal of Middle East Studies. 40 (2): 339–340. doi:10.1017/S0020743808080707. ISSN 1471-6380.
- Cantone, Helena (March 22, 2009). "Roy Armes. African Filmmaking: North and South of the Sahara". African Studies Quarterly. 10 (4): NA – via go.gale.com.
- Niang, Sada (December 2009). "Roy Armes. Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. xiv + 398 pp. References. Index. Bibliography. $65.00. Cloth". African Studies Review. 52 (3): 211–212. doi:10.1353/arw.0.0226. ISSN 0002-0206.
- Stillman, Dinah Assouline (2011). "Review of Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East: A Dictionary". Bustan: The Middle East Book Review. 2 (2): 127–131. doi:10.1163/187853011x605195. ISSN 1878-5301. JSTOR 10.1163/187853011x605195.
- Hout, Syrine (April 2017). "Roy Armes, New Voices in Arab Cinema". Journal of Contemporary History. 52 (2): 476–478. doi:10.1177/0022009416688182p. ISSN 0022-0094.
- Rizi, Najmeh Moradiyan (2015-12-01). "Review: New Voices in Arab Cinema by Roy Armes". Film Quarterly. 69 (2): 90–92. doi:10.1525/fq.2015.69.2.90. ISSN 0015-1386.