This topical and innovative study is the first book on Algerian cinema to be published in English since the 1970s.

Guy Austin is Professor of French Studies and Director of the Research Centre in Film and Digital Media at Newcastle University

1. An introduction to modern Algerian history and politics
2. A brief history of Algerian cinema
3. The war of liberation on screen: trauma, history, myth
4. Representing gender: tradition and taboo
5. Berber cinema, historical and ahistorical
6. After 'Black October': mourning and melancholia
7. Screening the 'invisible war'
8. Memory and identity: from lost sites to reclaimed images
9.Conclusion: Algerian national cinemas
Filmography
Index