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
Product details
ISBN
9781474440530
Published
2025-05-31
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Height
216 mm
Width
138 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
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