This volume focuses on contemporary Algerian feminist documentary filmmaker Habiba Djahnine as a 'memory-bearer' who gives voice to her compatriots to tell their own stories in her films. It provides the reader with exposure to key issues in contemporary Algerian culture and history (colonial, the Algerian War, the Black Decade of the 1990s), memory and women's and human rights. The book gives a brief overview of Algerian cinema, Algerian women filmmakers and situates Djahnine's oeuvre and its significance within the North African context. It examines her work as a feminist, teacher and poet and how she transmits this locally and transnationally. The book also explores how Djahnine uses documentary film form for personal and autobiographical explorations of Algerian history, culture, memory and trauma.
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Explores the work and legacy of feminist documentary filmmaker, Habiba Djahnine.
List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Filmmaker, Poet, Feminist, Teacher 1. Out of Amnesia: filming the memory-narrative. Lettre à ma soeur/Letter to my Sister. 2006 2. Becoming Citizens. Autrement citoyens, des associations en mouvement/Otherwise Citizens, Associations on the Move. 2009 3. Environment, Sustainable Development and Cultural Heritage. Retours à la montagne/Returns to the Mountain. 2010 4. ‘Rise Up Youth’: Performing Activism. Avant de franchir la ligne d'horizon/Before Crossing the Horizon Line. 2011 5. Women’s Rights in the New Algeria. Safia, une histoire de femme/Safia, a Woman’s Story. 2011 6. De-orientalising and Expanding the Cinematic Screen. D’un desert/From a Desert. 2019 Conclusion: Towards an Inclusive Algeria Works Cited Index
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Provides readers with exposure to key issues in contemporary Algerian culture, history and society

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ISBN
9781474440530
Publisert
2025-05-31
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Sheila Petty is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Professor Emerita of Film Studies at the University of Regina. She has held the SaskPower Research Chair in Cultural Heritage at the University of Regina from 2022-2024. Her research program focuses on manifestations of cultural heritage in sub-Saharan African, North African and Amazigh cinemas. She has curated exhibitions for art galleries across Canada. Her latest project, funded through the Government of Canada’s New Frontiers in Research Fund, investigates methodologies for decolonising film festival research in a post-pandemic world.