Late-colonial French Cinema: Filming the Algerian War of Independence

Deploying the term ‘late—colonial’ to describe a body of largely French films made during, and in response to, the Algerian War of Independence (1954—1962), this book revolves around one question – what is late—colonial French cinema? – generating two answers.
Firstly, Sharpe argues that late—colonial cinema represents a formally and thematically important, yet unappreciated tendency in French cinema; one that has largely been overshadowed by a scholarly focus on the French New Wave. Second...