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Habiba Djahnine

Memory Bearer

by Sheila Petty

Type
Biographies
Subject
DirectorHabiba Djahnine
Keywords
Habiba Djahnine, Algeria
Publishing date
2025 (May 31, 2025)
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Collection
Visionaries: The Work of Women Filmmakers
Language
English
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Physical desc.
Hardcover • 132 pages
5 ¼ x 8 ½ inches (13.5 x 21.5 cm)
ISBN
978-1-4744-4053-0
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Book Presentation:
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.

See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press

See the complete filmography of Habiba Djahnine on the website: IMDB ...

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Contact Zones:Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema

Contact Zones (2008)

Memory, Origin, and Discourses in Black Diasporic Cinema

by Sheila Petty

Subject: Countries > Africa

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