Late-Colonial French Cinema

Filming the Algerian War of Independence

Mani Sharpe

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Edinburgh University Press
16 May 2023

Films, movies & cinema; Film theory & criticism; Reference works

Series: Traditions in World Cinema

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'.

By: Mani Sharpe
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9781474414227
ISBN 10: 1474414222
Series: Traditions in World Cinema
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 16 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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

"""In this expertly written book, Mani Sharpe uncovers a buried web of French late-colonial film. A varied array of shorts and features expose and dissimulate a dissolving French-Algeria. Sharpe's exploration of masculinity and militantism in these resurfacing artifacts demands our immediate attention."" -Nicole Beth Wallenbrock, City University of New York"