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Late-colonial French Cinema

Filming the Algerian War of Independence (book in English)

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Type
Studies
Subject
Countries > 
Keywords
French cinema, war, ideology
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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Collection
Traditions in World Cinema
Language
English
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Hardcover • 280 pages • 118 €
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)
ISBN
978-1-4744-1422-7
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Book Presentation:
Deploying 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'.

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