Late-colonial French Cinema
Filming the Algerian War of Independence
Seiten
2024
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-6202-0 (ISBN)
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-6202-0 (ISBN)
Offers a sustained analysis of a cluster of French films made during, and in response to, the Algerian War of Independence
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’.
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’.
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.
Introduction
Part I: Soldiers
Conscripts and reservists, privatisation and redemption
Stardom, atrocity, and the beauty of violence
Militarised masculinity and its losses
Part II: Others
Ex-Resistants, conscientious objectors and the ethics of memory
Female citizens and guilt displacement
The War as seen from Algeria by the settlers
The War as spoken by Algerians and the Left
Conclusion
| Erscheinungsdatum | 13.11.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Traditions in World Cinema |
| Zusatzinfo | 37 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-6202-2 / 1474462022 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-6202-0 / 9781474462020 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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