TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Leary,Alan
TI  - The battle of Algiers
T2  - Italian frame
SN  - 9788869770791
U1  - 791.4365865046 23E
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Milan
PB  - Mimesis International
KW  - GUERRE D'ALGERIE
KW  - CINEMA
KW  - FILM
KW  - CRITIQUE DE CINEMA
KW  - REALISATION CINEMATOGRAPHIQUE
KW  - ALGERIE
KW  - FRANCE
KW  - ITALIE
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 117-127
N2  - Commissioned by Algerians and made by Italians, with dialogue in Arabic and French, The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) is a classic of political cinema, equally influential to art-house and popular cinema. The film's complex consideration of the efficacy of torture and terrorism means it is a key text for thinking about the ethics of conflict, and it is studied not only by scholars of cinema but also by political scientists and historians, not to mention by military and revolutionary groups. If The Battle of Algiers is a 'birth of a nation' film in a melodramatic mode (something regularly disavowed in favor of its supposedly 'documentary' realism), it is also an 'end of empire' film. It ambivalently pictures the failure of a Utopian project imposed by the French colonizer and looks forward in time to circumstances in postcolonial Europe even as it celebrates the achievement of an African nation
ER  -