Habiba Djahnine: Memory Bearer

by Sheila Petty

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474440533
• ISBN13: 9781474440530
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 132 Pages