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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453699603321

Autore

Welch Edward

Titolo

Contesting views : the visual economy of France and Algeria / / Edward Welch and Joseph McGonagle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool, England : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-78138-637-4

1-78138-925-X

1-84631-795-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (445 p.)

Collana

Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures

Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; ; 27

Altri autori (Persone)

McGonagleJoseph

Disciplina

327.44065

Soggetti

Electronic books.

France Relations Algeria

Algeria Relations France

France In motion pictures

Algeria In motion pictures

France In art

Algeria In art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-Title Page; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Visualising the Franco-Algerian Relationship; PART I Algerian Pasts in the French Public Sphere; 1 Wish We Were There: Nostalgic (Re)visions of France's Algerian Past; Postcards from the Colonies; Photo-books and the Visualisation of Nostalgérie; The Nostalgic Vision: Suspicion and Resistance; Photography, Past and Presence; Envisioning Memory and Space; (Not) Seeing the Casbah; Images of End Times; History through Photography

2 Visions of History: Looking Back at the Algerian War Making Visible the Algerian War; Visualising the End of French Algeria; Picturing Conflict in Algeria; Views from Below: The Conscript Perspective; Marc



Garanger, Conscription and Photographic Agency; Visualising History in France and Algeria; Anxiety and Indifference; 3 Out of the Shadows: The Visual Career of 17 October 1961; Re-viewing State Violence; Photography and History; Corporeality, Masculinity and Grievability: The Visualisation of 17 October; PART II Mapping Franco-Algerian Borders in Contemporary Visual Culture

4 War Child: Memory, Childhood and Algerian Pasts in Recent French Film Watching Violence: Child Spectatorship in Cartouches gauloises; Michou d'Auber: Passing as 'French' in the Métropole; The Camera Always Lies? Replaying the Past in Caché; Conclusion; 5 Bridging the Gap: Representations of the Mediterranean Sea; Sea Change: Farewell to French Algeria; 'La mer te ronge': The Sea as In-between; All Points North? Making Waves in Algiers; Conclusion; 6 A Sense of Place: Envisioning Post-Colonial Space in France and Algeria; Space and the Post-colonial; Visualising Post-colonial Encounters

Negotiating History between France and Algeria Visions of Post-coloniality in France; Visualising Returns to Algeria in the 2000's; Normality, Spectacle and Contemporary Algeria; Beyond the Franco-Algerian Tandem; Conclusion; Notes; Books and articles; Newspapers, magazines, anonymous print and online articles; Filmography; Art works; Television broadcast; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Fifty years after Algerian independence, the legacy of France's Algerian past, and the ongoing complexities of the Franco-Algerian relationship, remain a key preoccupation in both countries. A central role in shaping understanding of their shared past and present is played by visual culture. This study investigates how relations between France and Algeria have been represented and contested through visual means since the outbreak of the Algerian War in 1954. It probes the contours of colonial and postcolonial visual culture in both countries, highlighting the important roles played by still an...