Gillo Pontecorvo
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Frantz Fanon’s theory was a part of Third Cinema right from the time of its foundation in the 1960s. In my essay I want to explore the characteristics and formations of both, and show the different ways in which they are reflected in the... more
The film The Battle of Algiers (Italy/Algeria, 1966) is a figure for liberation and it can still communicate a sense of euphoria to those who experience and study it. The purpose of this book is to account for this power in terms of the... more
Introduction 7 CHRISTIAN-MARC BossENo,<< un livre à une page unique >>. L,écrit et l,écran AU CoMMENCEMENT ÉTITT LE VERBE 15 Arrimer des mots au fleuve des images. Entretien avec Jean Louis Schefer 2I MIcImL ÉLoy, Le Livre des Livres : Le... more
The fiftieth anniversary of the release of The Battle of Algiers (Italy/Algeria, 1966) offers an occasion to challenge commonplaces about the film and to show that there remains much to be clarified about its character. Typically... more
«Lo scopo principale del cinema deve essere rappresentare le emozioni attraverso le immagini»: con queste parole, nel 1916, Hugo Münsterberg inaugurava una riflessione sull’emozione spettatoriale che gli studi contemporanei, con diverse... more
This contribution will trace how Battaglia di Algeri served as a text of reference for counterinsurgency experts in the wake of the Iraq invasion. Simultaneously, and in a parallel, or rather parallax, reading, I will argue that the film... more
The first chapter from my book on the classic of historical and political cinema, The Battle of Algiers (Italy/Algeria, 1966). This introduction to the book surveys existing scholarship on the film, sets out my themes and approach, and... more
Zohra Drif, one of the notorious heroines of the Front de Libération Nationale’s independence movement during the Algerian War, has in the last fifteen years been frequently recreated in literature and film. Drif, who is now a retired... more
This article examines the interplay of word and image in two depictions of torture during the Algerian War: Muriel (Alain Resnais, 1963) and The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966). While Resnais offers the spectator a... more
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ABSTRACT This article attempts to highlight the manifestations of modernity as a social phenomenon through the review of five films about the reality of the Italian economic miracle from 1950-1960.The common theme of these five works by... more
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The Battle of Algiers is a film that chronicles the conflict between the French colonial military and the Algerian revolutionaries during the Algerian war (1954-1962). A post-independence work, Pontecorvo's film is dedicated to the events... more
Some of the most important translations included W. E. B. Du Bois's Color and Democracy (1945) and The World and Africa (1947); Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks (1952); George Padmore's Pan-Africanism or Communism? The Coming... more
Le film Queimada de Gillo Pontecorvo fait partie des œuvres majeures en ce qui concerne le thème de l’anti-impérialisme et la décolonisation militante abordés au cinéma. Sorti en 1969, il pourrait être le point d’orgue au cinéma italien... more
ABSTRACT Zohra Drif, a heroine of the Front de Libération Nationale's independence movement during the Algerian War, planted a bomb in the Milk Bar in Algiers on September 30, 1956, which killed three people, wounded fifty, and maimed... more
Nel 1949 Bazin affermava senza esitazione che rappresentare la morte sullo schermo costituiva un’oscenità metafisica, una profanazione del “solo nostro bene temporalmente inalienabile”. Tuttavia tale rappresentazione “del momento unico... more
Gillo Pontecorvo (Pisa 1916-Roma 2006) mantuvo a lo largo de su vida, que el cine debía ser una expresión ligada al hombre: «El cine debe permanecer cercano al hombre, dentro del hombre y no hablar de la nada: ese es el peligro». Estas... more
The aim of this essay is to link the Marxist concept of "class consciousness" to the analysis of the evolution of the character of Edith (Susan Strasberg) in Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1959 movie Kapò. Here, in fact, Pontecorvo and Solinas (the... more
Artigo publicado no Diário As Beiras de 7 de março de 2015
Das Pentagon hat während des Irakkriegs Filmklassiker wie «La battaglia di Algeri» zur Schulung von Offizieren gezeigt. Genützt hat es nichts, wie der neue Kinofilm «13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi» sowie Donald Trumps Aufstieg... more
We still have room for 2 (or possibly 3) more articles in this special volume of Nemla Italian Studies. We are especially interested in reading submissions focusing on multi-lingual or translingual Jewish artists operating in Italy. This... more
Kriege, seien sie historisch oder zeitgenössisch, sind ein zentraler Gegenstand in Literatur und Film der letzten Jahre. Während in Frankreich, glaubt man Henry Rousso, die „hypermnésie“ des Zweiten Weltkriegs nahtlos in die des... more
This paper is a close study of Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers and Queimada (Burn!) and Tomas Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment -- in particular, the ways in which these films explore the colonial and post-colonial experience.... more
The Veil of Nationalism: Frantz Fanon's "Algeria Unveiled" and Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers. Moore, LC (2003) The Veil of Nationalism: Frantz Fanon's "Algeria Unveiled" and Gillo... more