ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb
The Films of Rachid Bouchareb
1st Edition
Published on 21. September 2020
264 pages
978-1-4744-6653-0 (ISBN)
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ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb is the first book-length study of the internationally recognized director's films. Bouchareb was one of France's first filmmakers of North African descent and his career as a director and producer now spans over 35 years. Remarkably varied in their themes, formal elements and narrative settings, Bouchareb's work has engaged with and reflected on a variety of crucial social, political and historical issues; from the role of colonial troops in the French army during the Second World War, to terrorism in contemporary Europe. This volume examines Bouchareb's films from an interdisciplinary perspective, exploring key influences on his output and considering new theoretical approaches to his filmmaking.
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ReFocus: The Films of Rachid Bouchareb
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Content
- Intro
- Figures
- Note on Translations
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Rachid Bouchareb-A Global French Filmmaker
- Part I A Multidimensional Oeuvre
- 1 Rachid Bouchareb's Cinema as a "Vehicle for Encounters": Cultural Mixings and the Pre-production Process
- 2 The Road from Baton Rouge: Mapping Rachid Bouchareb's Transnational Mobile Movies
- 3 Questions of Gender and Embodiment in the Intimiste Films of Rachid Bouchareb
- 4 Genre and Universalism in the Films of Rachid Bouchareb
- 5 The American Dimensions of Rachid Bouchareb's Cinema
- 6 We Could Be Heroes: "Arabs" Becoming Brave in Rachid Bouchareb's Cinema
- 7 Globalization, Cinema, and Terrorism in Rachid Bouchareb's Films: London River, Baton Rouge, and Little Senegal
- Part II Case Studies
- 8 Aesthetics of Confinement: Space, Memento Mori, and the Recording of History in Rachid Bouchareb's Poussières de vie/Dust of Life
- 9 The Door of No Return: A Cinema of (Up)rooting and Decentering in Rachid Bouchareb's Little Senegal
- 10 Rachid Bouchareb's Hors la loi/Outside the Law: A Lesson in History, Reception, and Artistic License
- 11 Postcolonial Feminism, Gender, and Genre in Rachid Bouchareb's Just like a Woman
- 12 Relations of Disjuncture in a "World-in-motion": Rachid Bouchareb's La Voie de l'ennemi/Two Men in Town
- Appendix: Filmography of Rachid Bouchareb
- Index
