Fragmentary, Censored, Indispensable

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ID8939825
AuthorsBrett Bowles (corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume46
Issue2
Pages177-212
Publication date2023-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrench Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00161071-10350047
OpenAlexW4376868615
LanguageEN
References cited12

While the massacre of peaceful Algerian demonstrators by French police on October 17, 1961, has been thoroughly studied by historians and is well known to the general public thanks to a sprawling corpus of novels, plays, songs, films, bandes dessinées, and other retrospective representations, to date there has been no careful archaeology of the event's original audiovisual archive from 1961. This article takes up that challenge in two stages: first, by identifying the photos and newsreel footage shot on the night of October 17, specifying the circumstances of their production, (non)distribution, and impact in the immediate aftermath of the massacre; second, by surveying how key elements of the original archive were recycled over the following sixty years to serve in turn as surrogates for and complements to other sources of knowledge about this infamous and long-dissimulated crime d’état

Art · Computer security · Event (particle physics · Key (lock · Shot (pellet · Visual arts · Computer Science · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · North African History and Literature · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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