Late-colonial French Cinema

Filming the Algerian War of Independence

AvMani Sharpe

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Deploying the term ‘late-colonial’ to describe a body of largely French films made during, and in response to, the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), this book revolves around one question – what is late-colonial French cinema? – generating two answers. Firstly, Sharpe argues that late-colonial cinema represents a formally and thematically important, yet unappreciated tendency in French cinema; one that has largely been overshadowed by a scholarly focus on the French New Wave. Secondly, Sharpe contends that whilst late-colonial French cinema cannot be seen as a coherent cinematic movement, school of filmmaking, or genre, it can be seen as a coherent ethical trend, with many of the fifteen central case studies explored in Late-colonial French Cinema filtering the Algerian War of Independence through a discourse of ‘redemptive pacifism’.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-11-30
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:436 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Traditions in World Cinema
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474462020

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Mani Sharpe is a Lecturer in Film in the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds. He is the author of several articles on late-colonial French cinema, having published in French Studies, Journal of European Studies, Journal of War and Culture Studies, and Studies in French Cinema, amongst others.

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This is a book full of riches, combining scholarship and style. The research is meticulous, the contextualisation magisterial. A major contribution to cultural history as much as to film studies, Sharpe’s work forms a missing piece of the jigsaw regarding French cinematic representations of Algeria.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionPart I: SoldiersConscripts and reservists, privatisation and redemption Stardom, atrocity, and the beauty of violenceMilitarised masculinity and its losses Part II: Others Ex-Resistants, conscientious objectors and the ethics of memoryFemale citizens and guilt displacement The War as seen from Algeria by the settlers The War as spoken by Algerians and the LeftConclusion