Under the lens of the colonized: the film "The battle of Algiers" as a historiographic production

Authors

  • Julieta Chinchilla Universidad de Buenos Aires

Keywords:

cine, historia, colonialismo, tercer mundo

Abstract

Taking the proposal of Marco Ferro, Pierre Sorlin and Robert Rosenstone, we will analyze the film The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontercovo as a historiographical discourse. Taking into account that the article that we want to develop here comes from the area of history, we want to point out that the film The Battle... can not only be taken as a source of an era, but also as a historiographical production, which, using the language of cinema, produced a discourse close to the nationalist historiography of the 1950s and 1960s, but which also continues to dialogue with historical works produced in more recent years.

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Author Biography

Julieta Chinchilla, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Doctoranda en Historia Contemporánea por la Universidad de Buenos Aires (Beca UBACyT). Profesora en Enseñanza Media y Superior de Historia por Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (FFyL-UBA). Docente de la carrera de Historia (FFyL-UBA) de las materias “Historia Social General” e “Historia de la Colonización y Descolonización”; y del seminario “Mujeres y lucha anticolonial en Medio Oriente y el Norte de África”. Participa como Investigadora en proyectos UBACyT sobre historia de África Contemporánea y sus relaciones con América Latina. E-mail: julietachinchilla@gmail.com

Published

2023-10-30

How to Cite

Chinchilla, J. (2023). Under the lens of the colonized: the film "The battle of Algiers" as a historiographic production. Imagofagia, (28), 187–212. Retrieved from https://imagofagia.asaeca.org/index.php/imagofagia/article/view/983