Output details
28 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
Newcastle University
Book title
Algerian National Cinema
Type
A - Authored book
DOI
-
Publisher of book
Manchester University Press
ISBN of book
9780719079931
Year of publication
2012
URL
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Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
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Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
B - Modern Languages
Proposed double-weighted
Yes
Double-weighted statement
This is a ground-breaking, innovative study of Algerian cinema (1960s-2000s), including two contextualising chapters, extended case studies of 18 films, and a filmography of 50+. The complexity and interdisciplinarity of the work (combining film studies, trauma theory, postcolonial studies, literature, history and politics) matches filmic analysis to Ranjana Khanna’s assertion that being Algerian is “the most complicated history of citizenship in the world”. Scale: a 76,000 word monograph which took more than 5 years to research and write, and necessitated numerous trips to Algerian film archives and festivals to access a considerable body of crucially important but critically neglected films.
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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