Postcolonial images: studies in North African film
Bloomington:
Indiana University Press
(2005), xv, 278 pp., many illustr., abbrev. p.xiii-xv, bibliogr. p.255-265, index
" ... Roy Armes examines the political and cultural context of the films and the film industry in the post-independence era. Since the birth of cinema, North Africa has been the site of countless European and U.S. film productions. This book, however, focuses on the postcolonial period, when indigenous filmmaking in each of the three Maghreb countries--Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia--arose with the newly independent nations. Comparative analyses of each country's filmmaking in the decades following independence provide a historical portrait of the conditions and environment for the development of a postcolonial cinema. Armes then turns his attention to an in-depth examination of 10 key films produced between the 1970s and the 1990s, including Omar Gatlato, La Nouba, Halfaouine, Silences of the Palace, and Ali Zaoua. The book includes a dictionary of more than 135 North African filmmakers and a chronological filmography." (Publisher)
Contents
Introduction, 1
I. HISTORIES
1 Beginnings in the 1960s, 15
2 The 1970s, 23
3 The 1980s, 39
4 The 1990s, 55
5 Into the Present, 74
II. THEMES AND STYLES
6 An Indigenous Film Culture: ElChergui (1975), 87
7 History as Myth: Chronicle of the Years of Embers (1975), 96
8 A Fragile Masculinity: Omar Gatlato( 1976), 105
9 Memory Is a Woman's Voice: La Nouba (1978), 114
10 Imag(in)ing Europe: MissMona (1987), 123
11 Defeat as Destiny: Golden Horseshoes (1989), 132
12 Sexuality and Gendered Space: Halfaouine( 1990), 141
13 A Timeless World: Looking for My Wife's Husband (1993), 150
14 A New Future Begins: Silences of the Palace (1994), 159
15 A New Realism? AliZaoua (1999), 169
Conclusion, 178
Appendix A. Dictionary of Feature Filmmakers, 189
Appendix B. List of Films, 213
I. HISTORIES
1 Beginnings in the 1960s, 15
2 The 1970s, 23
3 The 1980s, 39
4 The 1990s, 55
5 Into the Present, 74
II. THEMES AND STYLES
6 An Indigenous Film Culture: ElChergui (1975), 87
7 History as Myth: Chronicle of the Years of Embers (1975), 96
8 A Fragile Masculinity: Omar Gatlato( 1976), 105
9 Memory Is a Woman's Voice: La Nouba (1978), 114
10 Imag(in)ing Europe: MissMona (1987), 123
11 Defeat as Destiny: Golden Horseshoes (1989), 132
12 Sexuality and Gendered Space: Halfaouine( 1990), 141
13 A Timeless World: Looking for My Wife's Husband (1993), 150
14 A New Future Begins: Silences of the Palace (1994), 159
15 A New Realism? AliZaoua (1999), 169
Conclusion, 178
Appendix A. Dictionary of Feature Filmmakers, 189
Appendix B. List of Films, 213
