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ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb is the first book-length study of the internationally recognized director's films. Bouchareb was one of France's first filmmakers of North African descent and his career as a director and producer now spans over thirty-five years. Remarkably varied in their themes, formal elements and narrative settings, Bouchareb's work has engaged with and reflected on a variety of crucial social, political and historical issues; from the role of colonial troops in the French army during the Second World War, to terrorism in contemporary Europe. This volume examines Bouchareb's films from an interdisciplinary perspective, exploring key influences on his output and considering new theoretical approaches to his filmmaking.
Michael Gott is Associate Professor of French and program director for the Film & Media Studies BA at the University of Cincinnati
Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp is Associate Professor of French and Film at the University of Rhode Island
List of contents
Illustrations
A Note on Translations
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Rachid Bouchareb: A Global French Filmmaker
Michael Gott and Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp
I: A Multidimensional Oeuvre
- Rachid Bouchareb's Cinema as a 'Vehicle for Encounters': Cultural Mixings and the Pre-Production Process
Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp
- The Road from Baton Rouge: Mapping Rachid Bouchareb's Transnational Mobile Movies
Michael Gott
- Questions of Gender and Embodiment in the Intimiste Films of Rachid Bouchareb
Kaya Davies Hayon
- Genre and Universalism in the Films of Rachid Bouchareb
David Pettersen
- The American Dimensions of Rachid Bouchareb's Cinema
Nabil Boudraa and Ahmed Bedjaoui
- We Could Be Heroes: 'Arabs' Becoming Brave in Rachid Bouchareb's Cinema
Julien Gaertner
- Globalisation, Cinema, and Terrorism in Rachid Bouchareb's Films: London River, Baton Rouge and Little Senegal
Mireille Rosello
II: Case Studies
- Aesthetics of Confinement: Space, Memento Mori, and the Recording of History in Rachid Bouchareb's Poussières de vie/Dust of Life
Michael O'Riley
- The Door of No Return: A Cinema of (Up)rooting and Decentring in Rachid Bouchareb's Little Senegal
Gemma King
- Rachid Bouchareb's Hors la loi/Outside the Law: A Lesson in History, Reception and Artistic Licence
Jennifer Howell
- Postcolonial Feminism, Gender, and Genre in Rachid Bouchareb's Just like a Woman
Anne Donadey
- Relations of Disjuncture in a 'World-in-Motion': Rachid Bouchareb's La Voie de l'ennemi/Two Men in Town
Valérie K. Orlando
Appendix: Filmography of Rachid Bouchareb
Index
About the author
Michael Gott is Associate Professor of French and Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati, where he teaches courses in European Studies, Film and Media Studies, and French-language culture and cinema. He is the author of
French-language Road Cinema: Borders, Diasporas and 'New Europe' (EUP, 2016) and co-edited
Cinéma-monde: Decentred Perspectives on Global Filmmaking in French (EUP, 2018),
Open Roads, Closed Borders: the Contemporary French-Language Road Movie (Intellect, 2013) and
East, West and Centre: Reframing European Cinema Since 1989 (EUP, 2014).Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp is Associate Professor of French and Film at the University of Rhode Island and the author of
Muslim Women in French Cinema: Voices of Maghrebi Migrants in France (Liverpool University Press, 2015). Her research focuses on representations of minority-ethnic characters in French cinema and on television, as well as on the films and careers of actors and actresses of North and West African descent in France.
Summary
Examines the diverse oeuvre of internationally recognised French-Algerian director Rachid Bouchareb.
