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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
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      Race and RacismThe Battle of Algiers'Third Cinema' Theory and Third World Radical FilmsFrantz Fanon
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
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      Postcolonial StudiesAlgerian warItalian CinemaCinema
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
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      ArchitecturePostcolonial StudiesAlgerian warFrench colonialism
«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
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      Film TheoryFilm AnalysisSpectatorshipAffect/Emotion
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      Film StudiesHistorical FilmsAlgerian warThe Battle of Algiers
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
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      Amputation & Prosthetic WearersPolitical Violence and TerrorismTrauma StudiesAutobiography
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      Islamic StudiesSecularisms and SecularitiesThe Battle of AlgiersIslamism
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      World LiteraturesJewish StudiesFilm StudiesEuropean Cinema
Società editrice il Mulino, Strada Maggiore 37, 40125 Bologna riviste@mulino.it
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      Italian StudiesPopular Italian CinemaPostcolonial StudiesMasculinity Studies
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      Jewish StudiesTranslation StudiesFilm StudiesEuropean Cinema
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
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      HistoryMilitary HistoryDoctrine (Military Science)Aesthetics
En el momento de su estreno, La batalla de Argelia (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) fue recuperada por la crítica como una obra de nuevo tipo debido al realismo de sus imágenes. El valor documental del film fue uno de los aspectos que se... more
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      CinemaThe Battle of AlgiersGillo PontecorvoExhibición cinematográfica
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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      French CinemaFrench StudiesPostcolonial StudiesJacques Rancière
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
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      Serge DaneyGillo Pontecorvo
Siamo disponibili a riconoscere ai legittimi detentori il copyright delle foto delle quali non è stato possibile reperire gli aventi diritto.
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      CinemaTerrorismoGillo PontecorvoStoria Contemporanea Di Spagna
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
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      Postcolonial StudiesAlgerian warItalian CinemaJudith Butler
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      Industrial And Labor RelationsCollective Bargaining (Industrial And Labor Relations)Cinema (Celluloid and Digital)Film Studies
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      Film StudiesEuropean CinemaItalian StudiesFilm Music And Sound
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      World LiteraturesComparative LiteratureNew MediaJewish Studies
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      Self and IdentityIdentity (Culture)Political Violence and TerrorismColonialism
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
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      Cultural HistoryCultural StudiesMarxismItalian Cinema
L'antologia video è un montaggio di 26 sequenze (o 'macrosequenze'), significative per la storia delle rappresentazioni filmiche del lavoro in Italia e in Europa dopo il 1945 e tratte da 15 film di fiction (11 di 10 registi italiani), tre... more
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      European CinemaPopular Italian CinemaPublic HistoryHistorical Films
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      Jewish StudiesFilm StudiesEuropean CinemaItalian Studies
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
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      Film StudiesWar StudiesFilm HistoryCinema
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
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      Aimé CésaireNicaraguan HistoryDecolonial ThoughtDecolonization
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
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      Film StudiesPostcolonial StudiesGlobalisation and DevelopmentGlobal Cinemas
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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      George OrwellItalian CinemaModernityStéphane Mallarmé
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      Italian colonialismItalo-Ethiopian War(Italian) Colonialism and PostcolonialismGillo Pontecorvo
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
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      Jacques LacanSlavoj ŽižekPsychoanalytic Film TheoryThe Battle of Algiers
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
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      War StudiesGillo Pontecorvo