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intervention in Uruguay in the 1960s and 1970s. In doing so, the Greek-French film director forces the audience to reflect on the use of torture as a means of getting crucial information from members of guerrilla groups to guarantee success in counter-insurgency operations, and to question the effectiveness of violence as a means of advancing a political cause. In order to understand the circumstances that surrounded Daniel Anthony Mitrione's kidnapping and assassination in 1970, and the recreation of these events in Costa-Gavras's film, it is useful to provide a
dissolving the justification for insurgency. In Lewis’s original novel, mob violence is an inevitable but indiscriminate instrument of purgative violence that confounds the innocent with the guilty. The rage directed at the convent when it is discovered that the Prioress is guilty of murder knows no limits. It cannot be curbed or redirected. In Boaden’s version, however, the authority
terms of their activist politics, Portillo’s films and videos are part of the Latin American film movement dedicated to an insurgent, aesthetic/political project that Fernando Birri once called the ‘poetics of transformation of reality’. During the final years of the military dictatorship in Argentina, Portillo and Susana Muñoz started working on Las Madres: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and, later
In terms of the so-called 'clash of civilisations' after '9/11', Islamic states such as Algeria have too often been perceived in the West as 'other' and hence as threatening. This book, via an analysis of cinema, provides a discussion on some misunderstandings and assumptions about Algeria, which remains to a large extent underrepresented or misrepresented in the UK media. It is about Algerian national cinema and illuminates the ways in which the official mythologising of a national culture at the 'centre' of the postcolonial state has marginalised the diverse identities within the nation.
state nationalism’ whereby, ‘Unable to achieve representation in the language of the state, it nonetheless interrupts through insurgency, through representational breakdown, through a critical agency always in search of justice’ (Khanna 2008 : 60, 59). Michael Rothberg sees memory as the crucial means whereby this can be achieved: ‘When the state instrumentalizes the law of mourning, claims of justice must emerge from
with the theorisation of an Algerian future in Ranjana Khanna’s work. For Khanna, influenced in particular by Antonio Gramsci and Jacques Derrida, Algeria is a test case, where the sovereignty of the neo-colonial, postcolonial state can only be contested or resisted (‘cut’ in Khanna’s terms) by the insurgency of the subaltern. A future for Algeria might therefore be found in moments of resistance, in a critical agency that
Who , we must tell Other stories, stories of dissent and opposition to Empire. In Insurgent Empire , Gopal documents such narratives, focusing on how resistance in the periphery helped radicalize the metropole, how insurgent acts abroad hastened the demise of the British imperial project ( 2019b ). From India and Jamaica to Egypt and Kenya, ideas of freedom, independence, and self-determination were at the core of these anti-colonial movements. Gopal suggests that telling such stories disrupts the ‘seamless national
insurgency and revolution in French-colonised Indochina in the 1930s, and the subsequent dismantling of French colonial authority (Indochine); the survival of French identity, traditions and citizens under the German occupation 1940–1944 (Le Dernier Métro). These films served to reconfigure the nature of Deneuve’s screen image, and created the circumstances by which more immediately accessible and readily exportable notions of
-debated conclusion to her article ‘Can the Subaltern Speak?’ was that the gendered subaltern subject could not, at least in so far as ‘speaking’ implied escaping from the overarching discourses of colonial or indigenous patriarchal males, and the relevance of the silencing of the subaltern female to this film hardly needs to be stated. One kind of ‘speaking’, one mode of escape, might then be an insurgent discourse like that of the unnamed
American dictators. The main character, played by Yves Montand, is an unsympathetic functionary of a US counter-insurgency agency, who is taken captive by the guerrillas and, unrepentant, eventually executed. This is presented as well deserved, though the viewer derives no emotional pleasure from it. The film ends with the arrival of his replacement, who is met with hatred from a public sympathetic to the Tupamaro insurgents. State of Siege enjoyed an immensely successful run in France and in Europe more generally, but its release in the United States after a