Locating the Postcolonial in Transnational Cinema

The Place of Algerian Émigré Directors in Contemporary French Film

Bibliographic Data

ID9348283
AuthorsWill Higbee (Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume15
Issue1
Pages51-64
Publication date2007-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueModern & Contemporary France (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0963-9489 • E-ISSN: 1469-9869
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09639480601115284
OpenAlexW2067431854
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited6

This article focuses on the work of four Algerian émigré directors working in France since the early 1980s: Merzak Allouache, Abdelkrim Bahloul, Okacha Touita and Mahmoud Zemmouri, in order to address questions of transnational cinema(s) in a specifically postcolonial context. It considers how selected films by these directors borrow from the traditions of French (European) cinema and combine them with the specificities (and difference) of the Algerian diaspora in France. In the process, it explores how such transnational representations bring into question the validity of both national cinema and cultural identity as rigid and fixed concepts in contemporary (postcolonial) France

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology · Diaspora · Émigré · Identity (music · Media studies · Movie theater · National cinema · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · North African History and Literature

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