Late-colonial French Cinema : : Filming the Algerian War of Independence / / Mani Sharpe.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2023
• VerfasserIn: Sharpe, Mani,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Traditions in World Cinema : TWC
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 37 B/W illustrations

Offers a sustained analysis of a cluster of French films made during, and in response to, the Algerian War of IndependenceIdentifies and analyses a previously unidentified trend in modern French cinemaAddresses a ‘late-colonial’ gap in scholarship on cultural histories of de-colonisation, between the colonial and the post-colonialDefines late-colonial cinema as trans-generic ‘body’ of films, bound up with various cinematic traditions and tendencies, including the French New Wave, film noir, the World War Two combat film, observational documentaries, Soviet Montage cinema, parallel cinema, and settler cinema Combines textual analysis of fifteen case studies with contextual analysis of late-colonial French culture, politics and societyDeploys a different critical approach in each chapter. These include star studies, documentary studies, gender studies and space studies, among othersDeploying 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’.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- TRADITIONS IN WORLD CINEMA -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I SOLDIERS -- 1. CONSCRIPTS AND RESERVISTS, PRIVATISATION AND REDEMPTION -- 2. STARDOM, ATROCITY AND THE BEAUTY OF VIOLENCE -- 3. MILITARISED MASCULINITY AND ITS LOSSES -- PART II OTHERS -- 4. EX-RESISTANTS, CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS AND THE ETHICS OF MEMORY -- 5. FEMALE CITIZENS AND GUILT DISPLACEMENT -- 6. THE WAR AS SEEN FROM ALGERIA BY THE SETTLERS -- 7. THE WAR AS SPOKEN BY ALGERIANS AND THE LEFT -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- FILMOGRAPHY -- Index