Cinema in an Age of Terror - North Africa, Victimization, and Colonial History

Informationen zum Autor Michael F. O'Riley is an associate professor of French and Italian at Colorado College. He is the author of Francophone Culture and the Postcolonial Fascination with Ethnic Crimes and Colonial Aura and Postcolonial Haunting and Victimization: Assia Djebar's New Novels. Klappentext Michael F. O¿Riley is an associate professor of French and Italian at Colorado College. He is the author of Francophone Culture and the Postcolonial Fascination with Ethnic Crimes and Colonial Aura and Postcolonial Haunting and Victimization: Assia Djebar¿s New Novels. Zusammenfassung Looks at how cinematic representations of colonial-era victimization inform our understanding of the contemporary age of terror. By examining works representing colonial history and the dynamics of spectatorship emerging from them! Michael F. O'Riley reveals how the centrality of victimization can help us understand how the desire to occupy the victim's position is a dangerous and blinding drive. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Resuscitating the Battle of Algiers: The Politics of Race in the War on Iraq2. Mapping National Identity and Unrealized Union: Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes3. Hidden Maps of Victimization: The Haunting Key to Colonial Victimization in Caché4. Creating an Old Maghreb: Beur Cinema and East-West Polarities5. Colonial Cinema and the Aesthetics of Postcolonial Victimization: Pépé le Moko and Assia Djebar's La Disparition de la langue françaiseConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

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• Authors: &apos, O&apos, Michael F O'Riley, Michael F. O'Riley, Michael F. O''riley, Michael Kampen O''riley, Michael F. riley
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2010
• EAN: 9780803228092
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-2809-2
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: France Overseas: Studies in Em; France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization; France Overseas: Studies in Em
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies