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 introduces the reader to key issues in contemporary Algerian culture and history (colonial, the Algerian War, the Black Decade of the 1990s), memory and human rights. The book gives a brief overview of Algerian cinema, Algerian women filmmakers and situates Djahnine's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474439993
• ISBN13: 9781474439992
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 112 Pages