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Seven decades of Algerian cinema
Saïd Mekbel écrira alors : «Mon pays a plus besoin d’un journaliste que d’un physicien, parce qu’il a besoin qu’on parle de lui, question de survie.» ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ahmed Bedjaoui is Professor of Cinema at the University of Algiers3, producer, film critic and former director of the Cinémathèque Algérienne. Winner of UNESCO's Fellini Medal in 2015, he is the author of several landmark works on Algerian cinema.
Artistic (Self)-Representations of Islam and Muslims
Artistic (Self)-Representations of Islam and Muslims: Perspectives Across France and the Maghreb is a collection of essays that explores the question of artistic representation(s)/self-representation(s) of Muslim religious and cultural identity in France, the Maghreb and in/between since the 2000s. The volume offers a plurality of feminine and masculine voices and points of view on cultural Islam (Franco-French, Franco-Maghrebi, Maghrebi), all the while addressing the impact of events like 9/11, the tragic attacks in France in 2015-2016 (Charlie Hebdo, Stade de France, Bataclan, Nice), and the Arab Spring. Taken together, the volume features a transnational and transversal set of artistic vo...
Coastal Heritage and Cultural Resilience
This book explores the knowledge, work and life of Pacific coastal populations from the Pacific Northwest to Panama. Center stage in this volume is the knowledge people acquire on coastal and marine ecosystems. Material and aesthetic benefits from interacting with the environment contribute to the ongoing building of coastal cultures. The contributors are particularly interested in how local knowledge -either recently generated or transmitted along generations- interfaces with science, conservation, policy and artistic expression. Their observations exhibit a wide array of outcomes ranging from resource and human exploitation to the magnification of cultural resilience and coastal heritage. ...
Algerian Cinema in Forty Five Lessons
Algerian Cinema in Forty Five Lessons offers a fresh approach to examine the history of Algerian cinema, from its inception to the present day, providing in-depth analysis of forty five key films. While most scholarly and critical work on Algerian cinema continues to centre on the War of Independence and those films engaging with it, Dr Ahmed Bedjaoui argues that this thematic dominance has overshadowed many other important aspects of Algerian film history. Further, Bedjaoui examines how "revolutionary" films have frequently depicted an idealized image of a heroic, flawless and fearless figure which has been strategically crafted to legitimize national authority at different points in time. ...
North African Mosaic
This bookâ (TM)s ambition is to offer the most recent scholarship on North African cultures at a time when the very notion of culture is being re-evaluated in the shifting tides that both associate and divorce the forces of nationalism, globalism and neo-liberalism. Another ambition is to be a readable document about the past and the potential of North African civilizations. Those which have been crystallized into a polysemic voice from centuries of occupations, exchanges and what is now commonly called hybridizations. In this work the collective position of the authors, with their different fields of experience, is that the languages, musics, and the many expressions of common life in Nort...
Hommage à Kateb Yacine
Divers et précieux, ces témoignages situent Kateb Yacine parmi les hommes et dans le monde. Le lecteur retrouvera dans ce volume le parcours complexe de l'auteur algérien ainsi que les problématiques soulevées par son oeuvre, qui est à la fois universelle et témoin d'une Algérie en profonde mutation.
