ReFocus : : The Films of Rachid Bouchareb /

ReFocus : : The Films of Rachid Bouchareb / / Michael Gott, Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp.

Examines the diverse oeuvre of internationally recognized French-Algerian director Rachid BoucharebDevotes attention to Bouchareb’s under-explored films, including the Oscar- nominated Poussières de vie/Dust of Life (1994), those shot in English, and recent made-for- television filmsOffers an interd...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
VerfasserIn:
Gott, Michael,
Kealhofer-Kemp, Leslie,
MitwirkendeR:
Bedjaoui, Ahmed,
Boudraa, Nabil,
Davies Hayon, Kaya,
Donadey, Anne,
Gaertner, Julien,
Gott, Michael,
Howell, Jennifer,
Kealhofer-Kemp, Leslie,
King, Gemma,
Orlando, Valérie K.,
O’Riley, Michael,
Pettersen, David,
Rosello, Mireille,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:ReFocus: The International Directors Series : RFIDS
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 18 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Note on Translations
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Rachid Bouchareb— A Global French Filmmaker
  • PART I A Multidimensional Oeuvre
  • 1 Rachid Bouchareb’s Cinema as a “Vehicle for Encounters”: Cultural Mixings and the Pre-production Process
  • 2 The Road from Baton Rouge: Mapping Rachid Bouchareb’s Transnational Mobile Movies
  • 3 Questions of Gender and Embodiment in the Intimiste Films of Rachid Bouchareb
  • 4 Genre and Universalism in the Films of Rachid Bouchareb
  • 5 The American Dimensions of Rachid Bouchareb’s Cinema
  • 6 We Could Be Heroes: “Arabs” Becoming Brave in Rachid Bouchareb’s Cinema
  • 7 Globalization, Cinema, and Terrorism in Rachid Bouchareb’s Films: London River, Baton Rouge, and Little Senegal
  • PART II Case Studies
  • 8 Aesthetics of Confinement: Space, Memento Mori, and the Recording of History in Rachid Bouchareb’s Poussières de vie/Dust of Life
  • 9 The Door of No Return: A Cinema of (Up)rooting and Decentering in Rachid Bouchareb’s Little Senegal
  • 10 Rachid Bouchareb’s Hors la loi/ Outside the Law: A Lesson in History, Reception, and Artistic License
  • 11 Postcolonial Feminism, Gender, and Genre in Rachid Bouchareb’s Just Like a Woman
  • 12 Relations of Disjuncture in a “World-in-motion”: Rachid Bouchareb’s La Voie de l’ennemi/ Two Men in Town
  • Appendix: Filmography of Rachid Bouchareb
  • Index

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