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Looks at how cinematic representations of colonial-era victimization inform our understanding of the contemporary age of terror. By examining works representing colonial history and the dynamics of spectatorship emerging from them, Michael F. O'Riley reveals how the centrality of victimization can help us understand how the desire to occupy the victim's position is a dangerous and blinding drive.

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"A very thoughtful book which deserves to be read both widely and attentively."—Philip Dine, H-France Review



Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Resuscitating the Battle of Algiers: The Politics of Race in the War on Iraq

2. Mapping National Identity and Unrealized Union: Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes

3. Hidden Maps of Victimization: The Haunting Key to Colonial Victimization in Caché

4. Creating an Old Maghreb: Beur Cinema and East-West Polarities

5. Colonial Cinema and the Aesthetics of Postcolonial Victimization: Pépé le Moko and Assia Djebar's La Disparition de la langue française

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/2010
      ISBN13: 9780803228092, 978-0803228092
      ISBN10: 0803228090
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Looks at how cinematic representations of colonial-era victimization inform our understanding of the contemporary age of terror. By examining works representing colonial history and the dynamics of spectatorship emerging from them, Michael F. O'Riley reveals how the centrality of victimization can help us understand how the desire to occupy the victim's position is a dangerous and blinding drive.

      Trade Review
      "A very thoughtful book which deserves to be read both widely and attentively."—Philip Dine, H-France Review



      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      1. Resuscitating the Battle of Algiers: The Politics of Race in the War on Iraq

      2. Mapping National Identity and Unrealized Union: Rachid Bouchareb's Indigènes

      3. Hidden Maps of Victimization: The Haunting Key to Colonial Victimization in Caché

      4. Creating an Old Maghreb: Beur Cinema and East-West Polarities

      5. Colonial Cinema and the Aesthetics of Postcolonial Victimization: Pépé le Moko and Assia Djebar's La Disparition de la langue française

      Conclusion

      Notes

      Works Cited

      Index

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