Suzanne Gauch
Biographic Data
| ID | 194378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Gauch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Gauch |
| SIGNATURE | GAUCH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9150-237X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Habib Ayeb, director. Couscous: Seeds of Dignity. 2017. 57 minutes. Arabic with English or French subtitles. Not currently in distribution. No price reported
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Sand Castles
This chapter examines the three films of Tunisian Nacer Khemir’s Desert Trilogy, The Wanderers of the Desert (1986), The Lost Neckring of the Dove (1991), and the 2005 Baba Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul, as profound reconfigurations of how popular film generates meaning. While Khemir’s stunning engagement with Islamicate art, literature, and music has drawn accusations that his films play to a retrograde or outmoded orientalism, this…
Maghrebs in Motion: North African Cinema in Nine Movements
Exploring films made in Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria from 1985 to 2009, Suzanne Gauch illustrates how late post-independence and early twenty-first century North African cinema prefigured many of the transformations in perception and relation that stunned both participants and onlookers during the remarkable uprisings of the 2011 Arab Spring. Through multifaceted examinations of key films by nine filmmakers—Farida Benlyazid, Mohamed Chouikh, Nac…
Impasses of Algerian Cinema: Three Films by Mohamed Chouikh
This article examines how Chouikh's groundbreaking trilogy of films – The Citadel (1988), Youssef (1993), The Ark of the Desert (1997) – critically comment on the deepening crisis of state-sponsored Algerian cinema. Situating them in a lineage of post-independence Algerian film-making, it traces how the films of Chouikh's trilogy depart from both the social realist and commercial conventions of state-sponsored Algerian cinema by borrowing from re…
Jamming civilizational discourse: Nadia El Fani's Bedwin Hacker
This essay analyzes how El Fani's 2003 feature-length film engages and counters Tunisian cultural politics. For international film audiences, Tunisian film is characterized by often visually stunning, feature-length films focusing on social struggles, particularly those of Tunisian women, in the pre- and post-independence eras. After exploring how these films have been co-opted by a state-sponsored civilizational discourse that allies Tunisia wit…
Fanon on the Surface
(2002). Fanon on the Surface. Parallax: Vol. 8, Fanon & the Impasses of Modernity, pp. 116-128
A Small Place: Some Perspectives on the Ordinary
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 3, Summer 2002
Fantasies of Self Identity: Khatibi's The Book of Blood
In his never-completed "Voyage pittoresque en Algérie" (Picturesque Journey to Algeria), Théophile Gautier comments upon the rites of the Aïssaoua, a sect of North African mystics. He describes the sect as "a type of convulsionists of whom one hears marvels" [un espèce de convulsionnaires, dont on raconte des merveilles] (80). 1 Gautier immediately appends a remark calling attention to his own skepticism, a remark that leads him to a brief charac…
Telling the Tale of a Body Devoured By Narrative
suzanne gauch is Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Case Western Reserve University. She has just completed a book-length study on issues of representation in francophone Maghrebi literature and has begun a project on the theme of lost texts
Impasses of Algerian Cinema: Three Films by Mohamed Chouikh
This article examines how Chouikh's groundbreaking trilogy of films – The Citadel (1988), Youssef (1993), The Ark of the Desert (1997) – critically comment on the deepening crisis of state-sponsored Algerian cinema. Situating them in a lineage of post-independence Algerian film-making, it traces how the films of Chouikh's trilogy depart from both the social realist and commercial conventions of state-sponsored Algerian cinema by borrowing from re…
Fanon on the Surface
(2002). Fanon on the Surface. Parallax: Vol. 8, Fanon & the Impasses of Modernity, pp. 116-128
A Small Place: Some Perspectives on the Ordinary
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 3, Summer 2002
Fantasies of Self Identity: Khatibi's The Book of Blood
In his never-completed "Voyage pittoresque en Algérie" (Picturesque Journey to Algeria), Théophile Gautier comments upon the rites of the Aïssaoua, a sect of North African mystics. He describes the sect as "a type of convulsionists of whom one hears marvels" [un espèce de convulsionnaires, dont on raconte des merveilles] (80). 1 Gautier immediately appends a remark calling attention to his own skepticism, a remark that leads him to a brief charac…
Telling the Tale of a Body Devoured By Narrative
suzanne gauch is Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Case Western Reserve University. She has just completed a book-length study on issues of representation in francophone Maghrebi literature and has begun a project on the theme of lost texts
Telling the Tale of a Body Devoured By Narrative
suzanne gauch is Visiting Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Case Western Reserve University. She has just completed a book-length study on issues of representation in francophone Maghrebi literature and has begun a project on the theme of lost texts
Fantasies of Self Identity: Khatibi's The Book of Blood
In his never-completed "Voyage pittoresque en Algérie" (Picturesque Journey to Algeria), Théophile Gautier comments upon the rites of the Aïssaoua, a sect of North African mystics. He describes the sect as "a type of convulsionists of whom one hears marvels" [un espèce de convulsionnaires, dont on raconte des merveilles] (80). 1 Gautier immediately appends a remark calling attention to his own skepticism, a remark that leads him to a brief charac…
Fanon on the Surface
(2002). Fanon on the Surface. Parallax: Vol. 8, Fanon & the Impasses of Modernity, pp. 116-128
A Small Place: Some Perspectives on the Ordinary
Callaloo - Volume 25, Number 3, Summer 2002
Jamming civilizational discourse: Nadia El Fani's Bedwin Hacker
This essay analyzes how El Fani's 2003 feature-length film engages and counters Tunisian cultural politics. For international film audiences, Tunisian film is characterized by often visually stunning, feature-length films focusing on social struggles, particularly those of Tunisian women, in the pre- and post-independence eras. After exploring how these films have been co-opted by a state-sponsored civilizational discourse that allies Tunisia wit…
Impasses of Algerian Cinema: Three Films by Mohamed Chouikh
This article examines how Chouikh's groundbreaking trilogy of films – The Citadel (1988), Youssef (1993), The Ark of the Desert (1997) – critically comment on the deepening crisis of state-sponsored Algerian cinema. Situating them in a lineage of post-independence Algerian film-making, it traces how the films of Chouikh's trilogy depart from both the social realist and commercial conventions of state-sponsored Algerian cinema by borrowing from re…
Sand Castles
This chapter examines the three films of Tunisian Nacer Khemir’s Desert Trilogy, The Wanderers of the Desert (1986), The Lost Neckring of the Dove (1991), and the 2005 Baba Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul, as profound reconfigurations of how popular film generates meaning. While Khemir’s stunning engagement with Islamicate art, literature, and music has drawn accusations that his films play to a retrograde or outmoded orientalism, this…
Maghrebs in Motion: North African Cinema in Nine Movements
Exploring films made in Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria from 1985 to 2009, Suzanne Gauch illustrates how late post-independence and early twenty-first century North African cinema prefigured many of the transformations in perception and relation that stunned both participants and onlookers during the remarkable uprisings of the 2011 Arab Spring. Through multifaceted examinations of key films by nine filmmakers—Farida Benlyazid, Mohamed Chouikh, Nac…
Habib Ayeb, director. Couscous: Seeds of Dignity. 2017. 57 minutes. Arabic with English or French subtitles. Not currently in distribution. No price reported
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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