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Frantz Fanon : une vie, un combat, une œuvre / RFO/La Lanterne ; scénario et réalisation, Cheikh Djemaï ; production, Claude Gilaizeau et Barcha Bauer.
LIBRA DVD 001 349
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961.
- Fanon, Frantz.
- Black people--Race identity.
- Black people.
- Postcolonialism.
- Racism.
- Psychiatrists--Algeria--Biography.
- Psychiatrists.
- Intellectuals--Algeria--Biography.
- Intellectuals.
- Revolutionaries--Algeria--Biography.
- Revolutionaries.
- Algeria.
- Algeria--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Documentary films.
- Biographical films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (53 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
- Other Title:
- Container title: Frantz Fanon : his life, his struggle, his work
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : ArtMattan Productions, [2001?]
- Language Note:
- In French with yellow English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD-R; this disc is a recorded DVD and may fail to play on some DVD players or drives.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Biography/History:
- Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925--December 6, 1961) was a psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and author from Martinique. He was influential in the field of post-colonial studies and was perhaps the pre-eminent thinker of the 20th century on the issue of decolonization and the psychopathology of colonization. His works have inspired anti-colonial liberation movements for more than four decades.
- Summary:
- "Frantz Fanon was a psychiatrist, originally from Martinique, who had become a spokesman for the Algerian revolution against French colonialism. Embittered by his experience with racism in the French Army, he gravitated to radical politics, Sartrean existentialism and the philosophy of black consciousness known as negritude. His 1952 book "Black Skin, White Masks" offers a penetrating analysis of racism and of the ways in which it is internalized by its victims. While secretly aiding the rebels of the Algerian anti-colonial war as a doctor in Algeria, Fanon cared for victims and perpetrators alike, producing case notes that shed invaluable light on the psychic traumas of colonial war. Expelled from Algeria in 1956, Fanon moved to Tunis where [he] wrote for El Moudjahid, the rebel newspaper, founded Africa's first psychiatric clinic, and wrote several influential books on decolonization. [This film] traces the short and intense life of one of the great thinkers of the 20th century"--Container.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Robert Millié, François Rosolato ; editing, Jean-Pierre Sanchez ; music, Anouar Brahem.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a documentary film in 2001.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- OCLC:
- 231856887
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