Description:
Offers a sustained analysis of a cluster of French films made during, and in response to, the Algerian War of Independence
Brief description: Mani Sharpe is a Lecturer in Film in the Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures at the University of Leeds. He is the author of several articles on late-colonial French cinema, having published in French Studies, Journal of European Studies, Journal of War and Culture Studies, and Studies in French Cinema, amongst others.
Review Quotes:
This is a book full of riches, combining scholarship and style. The research is meticulous, the contextualisation magisterial. A major contribution to cultural history as much as to film studies, Sharpe's work forms a missing piece of the jigsaw regarding French cinematic representations of Algeria.
--Guy Austin, Newcastle University