Late-Colonial French Cinema: Filming the Algerian War of Independence

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'.

Author: Mani Sharpe
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 02/28/2023
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781474414227

About the Author

Mani Sharpe is a Lecturer in Film in the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds. He is the author of several articles on late-colonial French cinema, having published in French Studies, Journal of European Studies, Journal of War and Culture Studies, and Studies in French Cinema, amongst others.