What was the dynamics of the relationship between the European nations and the north African Arab nations?
A short summary of the purpose of this paper and the method used to explore the main questions of the paper.
2- Colonization of north Africa: Al Girya and Libya an example.
What was the dynamics of the relationship between the European nations and the north African Arab nations? The relationship between the French and the Italians and north Africa. what are the underlying forces that drove these European nations to seek control on the respective Arab north African nations? in what way the French and the Italian differ in the style of control. What was the counterpart perspectives of Arabs?
3- Third cinema perspectives: changing the narratives of the powerful invader:
Third cinema was a movement in film production that followed the political Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). NAM was concerned with the national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of non-aligned countries. NAM was a movement of the so-called third world countries to distant themselves from the tow imperial powers in the after math of the second world war. Third cinema was an art form that was initiated to change the narratives of the “powerful” and represent the perspective of the “weak”. Third cinema was more than the reproduction of the weak reality which can be captured by plain photography and film documentaries. Third cinema does more than plain representations of the oppressed realty it became a part of the healing journey from long term oppression and silencing. it has an emotional dimension to bring back the original identity of the colonized, since the growth of these identities through time were disturbed and historically interrupted by forced cultural reformation and direct military aggression.
4- The history of cinema in Algeria and Libya:
Before indulgencing in an exploration of the existence of third cinema experience in the tow African nations, we need to see if there was any cinema at all? to explore the existence of prerequisites of cinematic art, the form of art, the technology and the local interest compared to other forms of art and culture. Did cinema exist as a form of art? was it part of local culture at that specific point in time?
5- Two North African films: short summary.
The Battle of Algiers and the Lion of the Desert two films that represented the voice of the Algerian and the Libyan after a long-term aggression of France and Italy. the first was produced around few years of independence, the second was produced thirty years after independence. summary of the two films will reveal differences and similarities.
6- The application of third cinema criteria on the selected films: a comparison:
An analytic approach of the application of third cinema criteria on both films. Exploring the dimensions of national identity, the underlying economic variables, gender dimension, the echoes of both films on national Arab and third world audiences. The impact of both films on creating trends of same type of film philosophy.
