Algerian War in Film Fifty Years Later, 2004-2012

Informationen zum Autor Anne Donadey is professor of French and women's studies at San Diego State University. Klappentext This book examines the cultural, political, and aesthetic significance of narrative films made during the fiftieth-anniversary period of the Algerian war of independence (2004-2012). It demonstrates that this film production contributed to France's move from a period of the return of the repressed to one of difficult anamnesis. Zusammenfassung This book examines the cultural, political, and aesthetic significance of narrative films made during the fiftieth-anniversary period of the Algerian war of independence (2004-2012). It demonstrates that this film production contributed to France’s move from a period of the return of the repressed to one of difficult anamnesis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: The Algeria Syndrome and Hiccups of Memory Chapter 1: Un/Civil War Memories: L'Ennemi intime, Mon Colonel, Djinns, La Trahison, and Nuit noire 17 octobre 1961 Chapter 2: From Screen Memories to Intertwined Lives: Caché, Michou d'Auber, Le premier homme, Je vous ai compris, and Le Choix de Myriam Chapter 3: From Nostalg(er)ic to Coalescing Memories: Un Balcon sur la mer, Ce que le jour doit à la nuit, La Baie d'Alger, and Cartouches gauloises Chapter 4: Militant Memories: Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, Zabana!, Sartre: L'Age des passions, Avant l'oubli, Voyage à Alger, and Pour Djamila Conclusion: Difficult Anamnesis Works Cited About the Author Index

Product details

• Authors: Anne Donadey, Donadey Anne
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.10.2020
• EAN: 9781793626646
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-664-6
• No. of pages: 246
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print on Demand; After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Music; HISTORY / Africa / North, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, 21st Century, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / Genres / General, Documentary films, Literary studies: general, African History, North Africa, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050