(جامعة الوادي - University of Eloued, 2019-09) زيانى, فاتح
Since the first show of “Lumière-Melie” films, which
showed to the world the potential of cinema, France has not
hesitated to support its imperialist policy in Algeria by using
the pictures to pave the way for its settlement projects, starting
with films showing Algerians as strangers, passing by the
satirical films to the documentary films. The subject of colonial
cinematography was the misrepresentation of facts, Historical,
social and cultural character of the Algerian community in a
stereotyped manner. In the other side, the settler, despite his
lack of deliberate presence in the public film scene, was
depicted in the form of the civilized man and the holder of the
Western values of the new colony. Although French cinema
in Algeria inadvertently contributed to the emergence of a
revolutionary national cinema that used the revolutionary
documentary as an instrument to resist colonialism and to
transmit the reality of the national struggle to the world.
