Reinventing the Other. The Maghrebians’ body in French cinema from 1962 to today
Savarese, Éric
Reinventing the Other. The Maghrebians’ body in French cinema from 1962 to today - 2001.
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Based on a sociological analysis of films, this article treats the post-colonial recomposition of the Maghrebian’s image in France. The comparison between the ex-colonisers and the ex-colonised vision in the cinematographic production enable us to describe a competition for the representation of Maghrebian’s body. In the 60’s and 70’s, French film-makers still film the bodies that only illustrate the picturesque aspect of the site without coming within the scenario or the story. Maghrebian film-makers (or those who have a Maghrebian origin) expose physical stereotypes formed by the colonial relationship and the economic exploitation of natives that became « immigrants ». In the 80’s and 90’s, this space of struggle reconstructs itself with the return to an analysis of the French-Maghrebian relationship by non-Maghrebian film-makers, and also with a new perspective on violence that is not described anymore as the typical feature of an invented Maghrebian character.
Reinventing the Other. The Maghrebians’ body in French cinema from 1962 to today - 2001.
38
Based on a sociological analysis of films, this article treats the post-colonial recomposition of the Maghrebian’s image in France. The comparison between the ex-colonisers and the ex-colonised vision in the cinematographic production enable us to describe a competition for the representation of Maghrebian’s body. In the 60’s and 70’s, French film-makers still film the bodies that only illustrate the picturesque aspect of the site without coming within the scenario or the story. Maghrebian film-makers (or those who have a Maghrebian origin) expose physical stereotypes formed by the colonial relationship and the economic exploitation of natives that became « immigrants ». In the 80’s and 90’s, this space of struggle reconstructs itself with the return to an analysis of the French-Maghrebian relationship by non-Maghrebian film-makers, and also with a new perspective on violence that is not described anymore as the typical feature of an invented Maghrebian character.
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