Philosophically crossing the 'New Berlin Wall
Harragasandl'immigration clandestinein French and Francophone cinema
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3979501 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angelica Maria Deangelis (American University of Kuwait, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 717-740 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of North African Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-9387 • E-ISSN: 1743-9345 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13629387.2017.1376459 |
| OpenAlex | W2754757118 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 19 |
Mezrak Allouache’s Harragas [dir. 2009. Harragas. Algeria: Librisfilms. Baya Films and France 2 Cinéma] and Philippe Lioret’s Welcome [dir. 2009. Welcome. France: Nord-Ouest Productions] have entered into the debate concerning the global migrant crisis, not only by portraying the issue from the point of view of the migrant and French society, but also by challenging (in the case of Welcome especially) laws concerning immigration. While interesting work has already been done through postcolonial readings and by looking at the role of hospitality in the films, this article will be considering them in relation to the provocative work being produced by philosophers Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, and Giorgio Agamben, whose concepts of the event, the act, and state of exception respectively will inform its discussion of Harragas and Welcome, and the politics surrounding them. Although all three (Badiou, Žižek, and Agamben) have written about cinema, it is not their cinematic analyses that are of specific interest here, but rather their more general philosophical concepts as enumerated above. This article, therefore, has two related goals in considering the ontologically based concepts of event, act and state of exception: How useful are these concepts in reading the films? And how useful are these concepts in imagining and even actuating political change
Aesthetics · Art history · Event (particle physics · French · Hospitality · Humanities · Immigration · Media studies · Movie theater · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Relation (database · Sociology · State (computer science · State of exception · Tourism · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
Post-beur Cinema
An Accented Cinema
Africa and France
Film, Theory and Philosophy The Key Thinkers
Subject of the event, subject of the act
Postcolonial Images
The Human Condition
Burning the Sea
France and the Paradigm of Hospitality
Alain Badiou
Hope and Indignation in Fortress Europe
Reframing Difference
African Filmmaking
The origins of totalitarianism
Reclaiming 'Bare Life
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |