Late-colonial French Cinema : Filming the Algerian War of Independence (Traditions in World Cinema)

Sharpe, Mani

Edinburgh University Press（2024/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 280 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474462020
• DDC分類 791.43658

Full Description

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'.

Contents

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