Guy Austin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3684756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guy Austin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guy |
| FAMILY NAME | Austin |
| SIGNATURE | AUSTIN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7312-327X |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Salima Tenfiche , Renouveau du cinéma algérien de la fin de la guerre civile au Hirak (2003–2019)
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ .
Conflict imaginaries in Algeria after the black decade: Peace without reconciliation
This article presents the results of fieldwork carried out in France and Algeria in the spring of 2019 with survivors of the Algerian civil war (the so-called black decade of the 1990s). Interviews were filmed, thus allowing close analysis of not only verbal testimony (including narratives, tropes, and pronouns) but also gestures and body language, amounting to what Wetherell (2012) calls 'affective practice'. Analysing closely participant reacti…
Affective imaginaries of conflict: From the black decade to the Hirak – an Algerian case study
This article presents the results of fieldwork carried out in Kabylia, Algeria in 2019, as part of Screening Violence, a major research study into imaginaries of conflict in five countries that have recent experience of civil war. We apply the concept of the imaginary to our fieldwork data in order to engage with our participants’ constructions and perceptions of political violence, while transcending the conventional binaries between affect and …
Fires of resistance in Algerian discourse: A genealogy of a trope
This article takes as its starting point the use of fire as a political metaphor by Algerians who participated in the Screening Violence research project; it emerged in these discussions as a trope of struggle and conflict in Algeria. In part, this political imaginary has been influenced by France, where fire has historically represented freedom and resistance to unjust powers. However, this inheritance has not been received passively in Algeria,…
The stink of the sacred: A Bataillean reading of Gainsbourg’s film Je t’aime moi non plus
Although best known for his music, Serge Gainsbourg also starred in and directed several films. This article considers his directorial debut, Je t’aime moi non plus (1976) through the optic of Georges Bataille’s theorisation of the sacred and the heterogeneous. According to Bataille, bourgeois capitalism is characterised by material and moral values, respect for work and homogeneity. Against this he posits the outsider values of the sacred. Where…
Algerian national cinema
In terms of the so-called 'clash of civilisations' after '9/11', Islamic states such as Algeria have too often been perceived in the West as 'other' and hence as threatening. This book, via an analysis of cinema, provides a discussion on some misunderstandings and assumptions about Algeria, which remains to a large extent underrepresented or misrepresented in the UK media. It is about Algerian national cinema and illuminates the ways in which the…
Revisiting Star Studies: Cultures, Themes and Methods
Challenges traditional Hollywood-derived models of star studies Is classical Hollywood stardom the last word on film stars? How do film stars function in non-Hollywood contexts, such as Bollywood, East Asia and Latin America, and what new developments has screen stardom undergone in recent years, both in Hollywood and elsewhere? Gathering together the most important new research on star studies, with case studies of stars from many different cult…
Book EXCERPT | Mohamed Chouikh: From Anticolonial Commemoration to a Cinema of Contestation in Ten Arab Filmmakers
The following is an excerpt from the anthology Ten Arab Filmmakers edited by Josef Gugler and published by Indiana University Press (2015). Mohamed Chouikh occupies a key position as a kind of relay between the post-colonial, idealized Algeria of the 1960s and what one might call the contested, dysfunctional Algeria of the 1980s and since. As an actor, he played a part in the pioneering Algerian films of the sixties and early seventies, sometimes…
Revisiting Star Studies: Cultures, Themes and Methods
From Hollywood to Bollywood, from China to Italy, and from Poland to Mexico, this collection revisits the definitions and origins of star studies, and points the way forward to new ways of approaching the field
New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies
Through his influential work on cultural capital and social mobility, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has provided critical insights into the complex interactions of power, class, and culture in the modern era. Ubiquitous though Bourdieu’s theories are, however, they have only intermittently been used to study some of the most important forms of cultural production today: cinema and new media. With topics ranging from film festivals and ph…
New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies
Through his influential work on cultural capital and social mobility, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has provided critical insights into the complex interactions of power, class, and culture in the modern era. Ubiquitous though Bourdieu’s theories are, however, they have only intermittently been used to study some of the most important forms of cultural production today: cinema and new media. With topics ranging from film festivals and ph…
Studying French Cinema
Decrypting depression in Rivette's Histoire de Marie et Julien
This essay proposes an allegorical reading of Jacques Rivette's Histoire de Marie et Julien (2004), interpreting the film not as a supernatural romance (the received reading) but as a portrayal of depression. Using the work of Julia Kristeva ( Black Sun ) and of Abraham and Torok ( The Shell and the Kernel ) on how depression is manifest in cultural forms as well as in clinical symptoms, it also applies comparisons with Gothic fiction, plus ideas…
Spaces of the Dispossessed in Algerian Cinema
This article considers the function of space—colonial space, space as disputed territory, gendered space, space and regional/cultural identity—as a fundamental aspect of filmic representations of Algeria. The European colonial project informed what Richard Dyer has called ‘a sense of white historical mastery over time and space’. After independence, the configuration and policing of space in the Algerian nationalist imaginary in many ways replica…
Books
Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
Journal Article Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema Get access Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema. By Geneviève Sellier. Translated by Kristin Ross. Durham: Duke University Press. 2008. 270 pp. £12.99. ISBN 978 0 8223 4192 5. Guy Austin Guy Austin University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 23, Issue 3, September 2009, Pages 416–417, https://doi.org/10.1093…
Representing the Algerian War in Algerian Cinema: Le Vent Des Aurès
The Algerian War has been evoked by numerous French films without ever becoming part of the French national consciousness, partly because of state censorship, self-censorship and controversies around issues such as torture. French films about the war have, however, met with a certain amount of critical attention. The same cannot be said of Algerian films about the war, which have often been dismissed out of hand as state propaganda. This article …
The Amateur Actors of Cannes 1999: A Shock to the (Star) System
At the Cannes film festival in 1999 the perennial tension within French film between popular cinema and auteur cinema came to a head with the award of the Palme d’Or to the Dardenne brothers’ Rosetta. Moreover, three amateurs were given Best Actor awards: Émilie Dequenne for Rosetta, plus Emmanuel Schotté and Séverine Caneele for L’Humanité. This article analyses the performances of the amateur actors in the above films, and evaluates to what ext…
The life and death of star bodies: Ge ́rard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere
It is through their bodies that film stars incarnate values and identities. This article considers the star bodies of Ge ́rard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere in order to explore what they say about the period of their shared stardom in the 1970s and early 1980s. It evaluates in particular the origins of their acting style, the distinction between their early images, and the negotiation of their star images over time, which has seen Depardieu shift…
Vampirism, gender wars and the 'Final Girl: French fantasy film in the early seventies
History and spectacle in Blier's Merci la vie
Harmonic Century: The History of the Nottingham Harmonic Society
Algerian national cinema
In terms of the so-called 'clash of civilisations' after '9/11', Islamic states such as Algeria have too often been perceived in the West as 'other' and hence as threatening. This book, via an analysis of cinema, provides a discussion on some misunderstandings and assumptions about Algeria, which remains to a large extent underrepresented or misrepresented in the UK media. It is about Algerian national cinema and illuminates the ways in which the…
Representing the Algerian War in Algerian Cinema: Le Vent Des Aurès
The Algerian War has been evoked by numerous French films without ever becoming part of the French national consciousness, partly because of state censorship, self-censorship and controversies around issues such as torture. French films about the war have, however, met with a certain amount of critical attention. The same cannot be said of Algerian films about the war, which have often been dismissed out of hand as state propaganda. This article …
Vampirism, gender wars and the 'Final Girl: French fantasy film in the early seventies
Fires of resistance in Algerian discourse: A genealogy of a trope
This article takes as its starting point the use of fire as a political metaphor by Algerians who participated in the Screening Violence research project; it emerged in these discussions as a trope of struggle and conflict in Algeria. In part, this political imaginary has been influenced by France, where fire has historically represented freedom and resistance to unjust powers. However, this inheritance has not been received passively in Algeria,…
The stink of the sacred: A Bataillean reading of Gainsbourg’s film Je t’aime moi non plus
Although best known for his music, Serge Gainsbourg also starred in and directed several films. This article considers his directorial debut, Je t’aime moi non plus (1976) through the optic of Georges Bataille’s theorisation of the sacred and the heterogeneous. According to Bataille, bourgeois capitalism is characterised by material and moral values, respect for work and homogeneity. Against this he posits the outsider values of the sacred. Where…
Harmonic Century: The History of the Nottingham Harmonic Society
History and spectacle in Blier's Merci la vie
Vampirism, gender wars and the 'Final Girl: French fantasy film in the early seventies
The life and death of star bodies: Ge ́rard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere
It is through their bodies that film stars incarnate values and identities. This article considers the star bodies of Ge ́rard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere in order to explore what they say about the period of their shared stardom in the 1970s and early 1980s. It evaluates in particular the origins of their acting style, the distinction between their early images, and the negotiation of their star images over time, which has seen Depardieu shift…
The Amateur Actors of Cannes 1999: A Shock to the (Star) System
At the Cannes film festival in 1999 the perennial tension within French film between popular cinema and auteur cinema came to a head with the award of the Palme d’Or to the Dardenne brothers’ Rosetta. Moreover, three amateurs were given Best Actor awards: Émilie Dequenne for Rosetta, plus Emmanuel Schotté and Séverine Caneele for L’Humanité. This article analyses the performances of the amateur actors in the above films, and evaluates to what ext…
Representing the Algerian War in Algerian Cinema: Le Vent Des Aurès
The Algerian War has been evoked by numerous French films without ever becoming part of the French national consciousness, partly because of state censorship, self-censorship and controversies around issues such as torture. French films about the war have, however, met with a certain amount of critical attention. The same cannot be said of Algerian films about the war, which have often been dismissed out of hand as state propaganda. This article …
Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema
Journal Article Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema Get access Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema. By Geneviève Sellier. Translated by Kristin Ross. Durham: Duke University Press. 2008. 270 pp. £12.99. ISBN 978 0 8223 4192 5. Guy Austin Guy Austin University of Sheffield Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French History, Volume 23, Issue 3, September 2009, Pages 416–417, https://doi.org/10.1093…
Books
Spaces of the Dispossessed in Algerian Cinema
This article considers the function of space—colonial space, space as disputed territory, gendered space, space and regional/cultural identity—as a fundamental aspect of filmic representations of Algeria. The European colonial project informed what Richard Dyer has called ‘a sense of white historical mastery over time and space’. After independence, the configuration and policing of space in the Algerian nationalist imaginary in many ways replica…
Decrypting depression in Rivette's Histoire de Marie et Julien
This essay proposes an allegorical reading of Jacques Rivette's Histoire de Marie et Julien (2004), interpreting the film not as a supernatural romance (the received reading) but as a portrayal of depression. Using the work of Julia Kristeva ( Black Sun ) and of Abraham and Torok ( The Shell and the Kernel ) on how depression is manifest in cultural forms as well as in clinical symptoms, it also applies comparisons with Gothic fiction, plus ideas…
Studying French Cinema
New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies
Through his influential work on cultural capital and social mobility, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has provided critical insights into the complex interactions of power, class, and culture in the modern era. Ubiquitous though Bourdieu’s theories are, however, they have only intermittently been used to study some of the most important forms of cultural production today: cinema and new media. With topics ranging from film festivals and ph…
New Uses of Bourdieu in Film and Media Studies
Through his influential work on cultural capital and social mobility, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu has provided critical insights into the complex interactions of power, class, and culture in the modern era. Ubiquitous though Bourdieu’s theories are, however, they have only intermittently been used to study some of the most important forms of cultural production today: cinema and new media. With topics ranging from film festivals and ph…
Revisiting Star Studies: Cultures, Themes and Methods
Challenges traditional Hollywood-derived models of star studies Is classical Hollywood stardom the last word on film stars? How do film stars function in non-Hollywood contexts, such as Bollywood, East Asia and Latin America, and what new developments has screen stardom undergone in recent years, both in Hollywood and elsewhere? Gathering together the most important new research on star studies, with case studies of stars from many different cult…
Book EXCERPT | Mohamed Chouikh: From Anticolonial Commemoration to a Cinema of Contestation in Ten Arab Filmmakers
The following is an excerpt from the anthology Ten Arab Filmmakers edited by Josef Gugler and published by Indiana University Press (2015). Mohamed Chouikh occupies a key position as a kind of relay between the post-colonial, idealized Algeria of the 1960s and what one might call the contested, dysfunctional Algeria of the 1980s and since. As an actor, he played a part in the pioneering Algerian films of the sixties and early seventies, sometimes…
Revisiting Star Studies: Cultures, Themes and Methods
From Hollywood to Bollywood, from China to Italy, and from Poland to Mexico, this collection revisits the definitions and origins of star studies, and points the way forward to new ways of approaching the field
The stink of the sacred: A Bataillean reading of Gainsbourg’s film Je t’aime moi non plus
Although best known for his music, Serge Gainsbourg also starred in and directed several films. This article considers his directorial debut, Je t’aime moi non plus (1976) through the optic of Georges Bataille’s theorisation of the sacred and the heterogeneous. According to Bataille, bourgeois capitalism is characterised by material and moral values, respect for work and homogeneity. Against this he posits the outsider values of the sacred. Where…
Algerian national cinema
In terms of the so-called 'clash of civilisations' after '9/11', Islamic states such as Algeria have too often been perceived in the West as 'other' and hence as threatening. This book, via an analysis of cinema, provides a discussion on some misunderstandings and assumptions about Algeria, which remains to a large extent underrepresented or misrepresented in the UK media. It is about Algerian national cinema and illuminates the ways in which the…
Fires of resistance in Algerian discourse: A genealogy of a trope
This article takes as its starting point the use of fire as a political metaphor by Algerians who participated in the Screening Violence research project; it emerged in these discussions as a trope of struggle and conflict in Algeria. In part, this political imaginary has been influenced by France, where fire has historically represented freedom and resistance to unjust powers. However, this inheritance has not been received passively in Algeria,…
Affective imaginaries of conflict: From the black decade to the Hirak – an Algerian case study
This article presents the results of fieldwork carried out in Kabylia, Algeria in 2019, as part of Screening Violence, a major research study into imaginaries of conflict in five countries that have recent experience of civil war. We apply the concept of the imaginary to our fieldwork data in order to engage with our participants’ constructions and perceptions of political violence, while transcending the conventional binaries between affect and …
Conflict imaginaries in Algeria after the black decade: Peace without reconciliation
This article presents the results of fieldwork carried out in France and Algeria in the spring of 2019 with survivors of the Algerian civil war (the so-called black decade of the 1990s). Interviews were filmed, thus allowing close analysis of not only verbal testimony (including narratives, tropes, and pronouns) but also gestures and body language, amounting to what Wetherell (2012) calls 'affective practice'. Analysing closely participant reacti…
Salima Tenfiche , Renouveau du cinéma algérien de la fin de la guerre civile au Hirak (2003–2019)
This article was published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ .
Art (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Art history (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Movie theater (8 works) · Law (7 works) · North African History and Literature (7 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (6 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works)